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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7754516, member: 110504&quot;]Another brilliant post with another brilliant coin, [USER=118358]@The Trachy Enjoyer[/USER].&nbsp; Just before running into this, I was listening to an old broadcast about the Schism of 1054 and its aftermath, from a favorite BBC program, &quot;In Our Time:&quot;&nbsp; <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054921" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054921" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0054921</a></p><p>For what it&#039;s worth, the remarkable issue of Andronikos II strikes me as being fraught with both political and theological resonances, at a time when the two dynamics were intertwined to a remarkable, if (sadly) a less than unique degree.&nbsp; The traditional Byzantine attitude toward the Catholic West is evocative of the eastern Christians under Muslim rule, who not infrequently became a kind of fifth column in reverse, supporting the Muslims against incursions by, initially, the Byzantines themselves (in the case of the Egyptian Copts), followed by the Frankish Crusaders.&nbsp; Such communities often preferred the traditional (albeit qualified) pluralism of Muslim rule to the more militant enforcement of competing Christian orthodoxies (--please note the lower-case &#039;o&#039;!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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