By God! He has promised to reward them well! Paradise for evermore, paradise for evermore. The spirit of togetherness melted in the Byzantium heat: A feud broke out between the Normans and the Provencals over an alliance Raymond had made with the Greek throne to ensure passage through its territory. The knights from Provence were at ease in Byzantium, they were acclimated to a mixed culture, but the Normans were not. They were Norsemen, Teutons, many of them new converts to Christianity and they distrusted the alliance. This was not their kind of civilization, effete, esthetic, convoluted, deceptively courteous, mannered. They did not feel comfortable here. Many of them new Christians, they were rude and abrasive, distrustful of old civilizations. They shocked Anna Comnenius, the daughte

