GOVERNMENT OF THB BARBARIAN KINGS 49 erase with pumice stone the parchments of the books used for instruction in the public schools that they might be rewritten with these new letters. He occu- pied himself also with theology, maintaining that the Deity should be designated by but one name. "It is thus/' said he to a bishop, "that I would have you believe, you and the other doctors of the church/' When his envoys brought him from Constantinople cloths, ornaments, and medals of gold, he had them displayed in his palace, and exllihited at the same time