Re: Just curious......
You appear to have answered the question in #97901--these are the same conclusions that Norwich suggests, although I must say that I took away from his account a measure of surprise that the rickety edifice of the Eastern Empire didn't collapse of its own absurdities centuries earlier.
cordially,
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"Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
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rcareaga
April 23, 2003, 02:16:05 PM EDT