" More serious than the destruction of the Gothic army ," writes Herwig Wolfram, " than the loss of both Aquitanian provinces and the capital of Toulose, was the death of the king.

Gregory of Tours, in his Historia Francorum, writes that Bertha, daughter of Charibert, king of the Franks, married the son of the king of Kent.

However, the Codex Gothanus writes that the Lombards were subjected by the Saxons around 300, but rose up against the Saxons with their king Agelmund.

Thucydides, a Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War, writes that the Spartan king Pleistoanax lived on Mt.

Al-Nadim then writes about the Persian Hazār Afsān, explaining the frame story it employs: a bloodthirsty king kills off a succession of wives after their wedding night ; finally one concubine had the intelligence to save herself by telling him a story every evening, leaving each tale unfinished until the next night so that the king would delay her execution.

Osbern writes that Edward's mother was a nun at Wilton Abbey whom the king seduced.

Geoffrey writes this came about because Octavius, the king of the Britons, wanted to wed his daughter to such a powerful half-Roman, half-Briton and give the kingship of Britain as a dowry to that husband so he sent a message to Rome offering his daughter to Maximian.

Brown also writes of how Bower described the king as capable of stabbing a near relative through the hand for creating a disturbance at court.

This information validates the basic reliability of Manetho's kinglist records since Hatshepsut's known accession date was I Shemu day 4, ( i. e.: Hatshepsut died 9 months into her 22nd year as king, as Manetho writes in his Epitome for a reign of 21 years and 9 months ).

Jewish pilgrim Isaac Chelo ( 1334 ), writes of an Arab king who conquered Palestine from the Christians.

" It is difficult ," he writes, " to reconcile the king whose use of favourites is so logically strategic with the man who goes to pieces when one of them dies.

Pausanias ( 1. 12. 4 ) writes that during the reign of Aras, the first earth-born king of Sicyonian land, Asopus, said to be son of Poseidon by Celusa ( this Celusa otherwise unknown but possibly identical to Pero mentioned above?

Author Alan Gordon also writes about jesters as advisers to the king, who actually make up a super-secret spy ring that try to keep peace and control the leaders of different countries.

Joinville writes about the edifying words of the king and his Christian virtues.

In his book Anatomy of the Orchestra, Norman Del Mar writes that the timpanist is " king of his own province ", and that " a good timpanist really does set the standard of the whole orchestra.

Bede writes that after Wulfhere became king: " Free under their own king, they Mercians gave willing allegiance to Christ their true king, so that they might win his eternal kingdom in heaven ".

Diarmaid MacCulloch writes: " There is no doubt that Cranmer mourned the dead king ( Henry VIII )", and it was said that he showed his grief by growing a beard.

Adam Budofsky, managing editor of Modern Drummer magazine, writes " If the king of rock ' n ' roll was Elvis Presley, then the king of rock drumming was certainly John Bonham.

* 624: after Justus ’ s succession, Pope Boniface writes to him to say that he has heard in letters from King Aduluald ( possibly a scribal error for Eadbald ) of the king ’ s conversion to Christianity.

In the 19th chapter, he writes, " I have occasion to read over the records of enfeoffment and come to the case of Wu Qian, the marquis of Bian ...." ( The father of Marquis Bian, Wu Rui, was named king ( wang ) of Changsha in Hunan for his loyalty to Gaozu.

However, in drafting opinions, the Chief Justice enjoys additional influence in case disposition if in the majority through his power to assign who writes the opinion.

Hand writes that Cooper " enjoys creating roles for the audience: passive listener, surreptitious eavesdropper, or even someone implicated in the action of the story itself.

Wilk writes that the film was considered bizarre at the time, though, decades later, it enjoys a cult following.

He currently resides in St. Catharines, Ontario, where he writes full time and enjoys the recreational pastimes of walking, reading and music.

He enjoys science fiction and writes a story about rabbit holes in Danny's memory

Macaulay offers us a hint of Montesquieu's importance when he writes in his 1827 essay entitled " Machiavelli " that " Montesquieu enjoys, perhaps, a wider celebrity than any political writer of modern Europe.

" At the end of the Soul Society arc, moments showing Byakuya's changes in character were heralded as being some of " the best in the episode "; IGN writes " while Byakuya has changed, he still enjoys some of the traditions of the Soul Society.

John Sheppard, in his analysis of dreams titled On Dreams ( 1847 ), lamented Coleridge's drug use as getting in the way of his poetry but argued: " It is probable, since he writes of having taken an ' anodyne ,' that the ' vision in a dream ' arose under some excitement of that same narcotic ; but this does not destroy, even as to his particular case, the evidence for a wonderfully inventive action of the mind in sleep ; for, whatever were the exciting cause, the fact remains the same ".

Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres and respond to characteristics of the language in which the poet writes.

A writer is a person who produces nonfictional writing or literary art such as novels, short stories, poetry, plays, screenplays, or essays — especially someone who writes professionally.

Sweeney writes that " This is Chagall's contribution to contemporary art: the reawakening of a poetry of representation, avoiding factual illustration on the one hand, and non-figurative abstractions on the other ".

Millie draws a sketch of Hal and tells him she secretly writes poetry.

She then excuses any weaknesses in her poetry by stating that she writes only to get away from melancholy thoughts and to fill idle time.

While recovering, Smith writes her fifth book of poetry, Babel.

He writes eloquently and sympathetically about British modernist poetry in Under Briggflatts, while in Thomas Hardy and British Poetry he defends a pre-modernist verse tradition.

If a poet writes poetry and the poems have many verses, or if someone writes many compositions, it will always be the case that some of their writings might not be excellent.

He writes in a range of genres including poetry, fiction, visual and concrete poetry, music for live performers and computers, text & sound works, and writing for children and young adults.

Bernstein writes poetry, which has appeared in The Texas Observer, The Progressive, ZZYZYVA, and The New York Quarterly.

In her spare time she writes poetry ( mostly about Arnold ) and collects Arnold's used gum so that she can add it to her Arnold shrine.

He quotes Innokenty Annensky as saying it was important to avoid " the persistent embrace of the ' like everyone '" and writes: " It is precisely the poetry of Annensky and Kuzmin that at the beginning of the twentieth century took the first and decisive step away from this ' like everyone ' — in the direction of psychologically interpreted details and the everyday word, in the direction of living intonation — a step to be compared, perhaps, only with the Pushkin revolution.

Speaking specifically of Brand's considerable body of poetry, Italian academic and theorist Franca Bernabei writes in the preamble to Luce ostinata / Tenacious Light ( 2007 ), the Italian-English selected anthology of Brand's poetry, that " Brand's poetic production reveals a remarkable variety of formal-stylistic strategies and semantic richness as well as the ongoing pursuit of a voice and a language that embody her political, affective, and aesthetic engagement with the human condition of the black woman — and, more exactly, all those oppressed by the hegemonic program of modernity.

' Betts writes that ' hrough his books of poetry, his literary and cultural criticism and his rich range of essays on diverse topics, Davey has been a major figure involved in introducing the idea and practice of postmodernism to writers in Canada.

' Alexander Varty, reviewing When TISH Happens for The Georgia Straight, writes that it is possible ' that TISH ’ s emphasis ' on the self as a consciousness in process rather than a stable persona ' has become the norm in Canadian poetry and indeed in much Canadian fiction – a significant contribution, and one that ’ s worth celebrating.

Other than his academic publications, Pachauri also writes poetry and fiction.

The use of a poetic persona is often encountered in Classical Chinese poetry, in which the author writes a poem from the viewpoint of some other person or type of person.

She writes across genre boundaries, writing poetry, fiction, mainstream and speculative, short and long form, arts journalism and arts advocacy.

He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays.

In spite of her usually surly nature, Helga unveils a gentler, tender side when in solitude shown in her poignant crooning to her locket that has a photograph of Arnold encased in it and in the sweet poetry she writes dedicated to Arnold.

Evanier then writes the dialog, poetry, moral, acts on " insert joke " or " insert Mark-ism " instructions, and changes things around if needed, and then returns the work to Aragonés, who may or may not change things back.