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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3676884, member: 72790&quot;]I spent my career in teaching history and was always dismayed by the lack of information, documentation and artifacts, compared to the Classical World, for teaching much of anything on the Byzantines. Later as a department head it was part of my job description to purchase texts for the students. I once went to a publishers trade show with a fellow teacher. I was looking for a good text for our World History students. I would open each text and head for the chapter that dealt with the Byzantine Empire, assuming the text had such a chapter. It was on the basis of this that I purchased the text. My companion asked what I was doing. What are you looking for? I told him that any text that offered a fair coverage of the Byzantine Empire was likely to a good text for us to take to review for purchase by the district. I have felt sorry for the Byzantines. They got a bad press back then and still do. Any empire that can stay together, even if a shrinking one, for some thousand years or so deserves better in both our history books and numismatic collecting. We collect what we value, so we can give them &quot;the honor of remembrance&quot; by devoting ourselves to the study of their history, (Procopius, Anna Comnena), art, (icons) architecture (Hagia Sophia) and religion (Eastern Orthodox) and we can do all of that through their coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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