05-28-2007, 09:47 AM
That sounds partially accurate. From what you and others have been telling me it sounds like the country is rife with anticlericalism so Byzantium suffers in accordance.
I find it a bit ironic that it isn't taught in schools more prominently since the original intent of the revolt against Turkish oppression was to recreate the Byzantine state from what I understand about it. Maybe if Constantinople was recaptured things would be very different today in the schools.
Either way, if I lived in "medieval" Europe I'd have preferred to be a Byzantine (i.e. a citizen living in Constantinople) rather than be some petty lord or peasant living in the Germanic kingdoms. So, the Greeks, IMO, should take pride in that they didn't descend into the same level of plight experienced by western Europe.
~Theo
I find it a bit ironic that it isn't taught in schools more prominently since the original intent of the revolt against Turkish oppression was to recreate the Byzantine state from what I understand about it. Maybe if Constantinople was recaptured things would be very different today in the schools.
Either way, if I lived in "medieval" Europe I'd have preferred to be a Byzantine (i.e. a citizen living in Constantinople) rather than be some petty lord or peasant living in the Germanic kingdoms. So, the Greeks, IMO, should take pride in that they didn't descend into the same level of plight experienced by western Europe.
~Theo
Jaime
