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<p>[QUOTE="sand, post: 7683048, member: 118540"]That's a beautiful coin, Al. And an interesting essay, with beautiful photographs. All of the blinding that went on, was one of the dark aspects of the Byzantine Empire. I read, that the Byzantines considered blinding, to be more "merciful", than just killing someone. I'm not sure that I agree. If they wanted an emperor to "retire", then sometimes they blinded him/her, because they considered a blind person, to be unable to be emperor. However, Isaac II was an exception to the rule. He was deposed and blinded, but then 8 years later, he became emperor again, for a 2nd reign. However, the Byzantines did not have a monopoly on cruelty, during the Ancient times, Dark Ages, and Middle Ages. Therefore the expression "I'm going to get Medieval on your XXXXXX".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sand, post: 7683048, member: 118540"]That's a beautiful coin, Al. And an interesting essay, with beautiful photographs. All of the blinding that went on, was one of the dark aspects of the Byzantine Empire. I read, that the Byzantines considered blinding, to be more "merciful", than just killing someone. I'm not sure that I agree. If they wanted an emperor to "retire", then sometimes they blinded him/her, because they considered a blind person, to be unable to be emperor. However, Isaac II was an exception to the rule. He was deposed and blinded, but then 8 years later, he became emperor again, for a 2nd reign. However, the Byzantines did not have a monopoly on cruelty, during the Ancient times, Dark Ages, and Middle Ages. Therefore the expression "I'm going to get Medieval on your XXXXXX".[/QUOTE]
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