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See also:ISAAC I . (See also:COMNENUS), See also:emperor of the See also:East (1057-1059), was the son of an officer of See also:Basil II. named See also:Manuel Comnenus, who on his deathbed commended his two sons Isaac and See also:John to the emperor's care. Basil had them carefully educated at the monastery of Studion, and afterwards advanced them to high See also:official positions. During the disturbed reigns of Basil's seven immediate successors, Isaac by his prudent conduct won the confidence of the See also:army; in 1057 he joined with the nobles of the See also:capital in a See also:conspiracy against See also:Michael VI., and after the latter's deposition was invested with the See also:crown, thus See also:founding the new See also:dynasty of the Comneni. The first care of the new emperor was to See also:reward his See also:noble partisans with appointments that removed them from See also:Constantinople, and his next was to repair the beggared finances of the See also:empire. He revoked numerous See also:pensions and grants conferred by his predecessors upon idle courtiers, and, See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting the reproach of See also:sacrilege made by the See also:patriarch of Constantinople by a See also:decree of See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, resumed a proportion of the revenues of the wealthy monasteries. Isaac's only military expedition was against the Hungarians and See also:Petchenegs, who began to ravage the See also:northern frontiers in 1059. Shortly after this successful See also:campaign he was seized with an illness, and believing it mortal appointed as his successor See also:Constantine See also:Ducas, to the exclusion of his own See also:brother John. Although he recovered Isaac did not resume the See also:purple, but retired to the monastery of Studion and spent the remaining two years of his See also:life as a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk, alternating See also:menial offices with See also:literary studies.
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