"Constantine had transplanted the Roman name, the centre of
Roman power, and much of what was Roman in ideas and habits,
to Byzantium, the New Rome.
See CONSTANTINOPLE: A. D. 330.
The result was that remarkable empire [see BYZANTINE EMPIRE]
which, though since its fall it has become a by-word, was,
when it was standing, the wonder and the envy of the barbarian
world, the mysterious 'Micklegarth,' 'the Great City, the Town
of towns,' of the northern legends."
_R. W. Church,
The Beginning of the Middle Ages,
chapter 6._
MICMACS, The.
See AMERICAN ABORIGINES: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY.
MICROSCOPE IN MEDICINE, The.
See MEDICAL SCIENCE: 17-18TH CENTURIES, and after.