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<p>[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 7333410, member: 87200"]Very interesting coins [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER]. I read the <i>Journey of Louis VII to the East</i>. (de Profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem) by the cleric <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo_of_Deuil" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo_of_Deuil" rel="nofollow">Odo of Deuil</a> who characterized Manuel as a "fiend" for making the Crusaders swear an oath of fealty and then supposedly refusing to supply them. That was always the bugaboo of the Crusades: how to get supplied by the Byzantines once they reached Asia Minor. </p><p><br /></p><p>In Manuel's case diplomacy was critical, how could he balance the pressure of the crusading armies of illiterate "Franks" as the Byzantines called them on the one hand and the Seljuk Turks incursions on the other? Manuel managed pretty well but spending 9 tons of gold probably exhausted the treasury for the last time, as the dwindling lands in the Byzantines' possession could not provide the necessary tax base to refresh the Empire's coffers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 7333410, member: 87200"]Very interesting coins [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER]. I read the [I]Journey of Louis VII to the East[/I]. (de Profectione Ludovici VII in Orientem) by the cleric [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo_of_Deuil']Odo of Deuil[/URL] who characterized Manuel as a "fiend" for making the Crusaders swear an oath of fealty and then supposedly refusing to supply them. That was always the bugaboo of the Crusades: how to get supplied by the Byzantines once they reached Asia Minor. In Manuel's case diplomacy was critical, how could he balance the pressure of the crusading armies of illiterate "Franks" as the Byzantines called them on the one hand and the Seljuk Turks incursions on the other? Manuel managed pretty well but spending 9 tons of gold probably exhausted the treasury for the last time, as the dwindling lands in the Byzantines' possession could not provide the necessary tax base to refresh the Empire's coffers.[/QUOTE]
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