In 1000 he received the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, who dreamed of restoring a universal Roman empire and who recognized the sovereign status of the Polish duke.
The Ottoman conquests in the East, combined with the Ṣafavid survival in Iran, ended the long period of political vacuum and anarchy that had followed the collapse of the universal ʿAbbāsid empire in the 11th century.
The bidding for the entertainment assets of Vivendi Universal narrowed to two contenders yesterday when the company's board, after meeting in Paris, declared that it would continue talks with General Electric's NBC division and an investor group led by a previous owner, Edgar Bronfman Jr., whose family controlled the Universal entertainment empire.
But this conflict gave rise to the most complete political theory of universal and secular empire formulated in the medieval West, by the Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri.
The court also convicted the Canadian businessman, Edgar Bronfman Jr, the chairman of Warner Music, of misleading markets and insider dealing before the abrupt collapse of Messier's Vivendi Universal (VU) media empire in 2002.
If Sapiens is at its best in the early chapters, when the scarcity of evidence gives full scope to Harari's audacious imagination and gift for exposition, it remains consistently fresh and lively as it advances into the historical era, which it interprets in terms of three potentially universal orders – money, empire and religion.
They're the guys who, in the words of leftist commentator and blogger Matthew Yglesias, "believe that America should coercively dominate the world through military force" and "believe in a dogmatic form of American exceptionalism" and "favor the creation of a U.S.-dominated 'universal empire.' " But the term, in these Walt-Mearsheimered days, often denotes more than that.
In dispatching them, he fulfilled his role as preserver of the empire and universal master.
Mr. Burke, who was recently in Orlando to discuss plans to promote Universal across the Comcast empire, told analysts in a recent conference call that he was "very bullish" on the theme park business.
The deadline for bids for Vivendi Universal's U.S. entertainment empire neared on Monday, in an auction of some of Hollywood's best-known assets.
Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: A team led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. Edgar Bronfman Jr. turned up the heat on Friday in the battle for Vivendi Universal's show-business empire, according to Reuters.
