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Liutprand's candid account makes clear that often he was not as diplomatic as he might have been and
Constanze Schummer has questioned how good a diplomat he really was in Constantinople, despite successes in the West. On his second mission to Constantinople, for instance, after his purchases of
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purple textiles are confiscated, he tells the imperial party that at home whores and conjurers wear purple. Schummer and others have speculated that Otto I did not actually see the
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Liutprand. Liutprand uses the word "carzimasium" for the eunuchs he brought, suggesting that all of their external genitalia had been removed.
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Diplomacy: Papers from the Twenty-fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Cambridge, March 1990.
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at the beginning of the quarrel between the Pope and the
Emperor over papal allegiance to Berengar's son,
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and the
Byzantine court is a document of rare value, though highly coloured by his hostility towards the
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was told by his stepfather as
Liutprand wasn't in the city at the time). Liutprand included in his later
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In 949, Berengar II sent him on a goodwill mission as an apprentice diplomat to the
Byzantine court of
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of Rome. Liutprand was educated at the court and became a Deacon at the
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which offensively addressed Nicephorus as "the emperor of the Greeks".
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