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Why was the Byzantine Empire always the enemy of the Catholics and the Crusades?
They were both Christian right?
They were both Christian right?
The Byzantines weren't "always the enemy of the Catholics and the Crusades." They were allied as often as they were at loggerheads. In fact, if you'll remember correctly, it a Byzantine Emperor (Alexius I) requesting assistance from the Catholic Pope against the Muslim Turks that was the proximate cause for the Crusades beginning.Why was the Byzantine Empire always the enemy of the Catholics and the Crusades?
They were both Christian right?
The term you're looking for is "Racial Hygiene," or perhaps "Racial Classification." Dr Mengele had a degree in the former.What was race science in Nazi Germany called? I've heard of people getting PhDs in it but what exactly were they majoring in?
Exactly. "Aryan Physics," which ignored Einstein's theories on the basis that he was Jewish and therefore couldn't understand physics somehow, was equally stupid.And it wasn´t science - more like fraud. (As any facts that didn´t comply with their theories were ignored.)
Exactly. "Aryan Physics," which ignored Einstein's theories on the basis that he was Jewish and therefore couldn't understand physics somehow, was equally stupid.
The Byzantines weren't "always the enemy of the Catholics and the Crusades." They were allied as often as they were at loggerheads. In fact, if you'll remember correctly, it a Byzantine Emperor (Alexius I) requesting assistance from the Catholic Pope against the Muslim Turks that was the proximate cause for the Crusades beginning.
Also, simply both being Christian doesn't mean anything. After all, the Mamelukes and Seljuks were constantly fighting each other, and they were both Muslim. In addition, the Crusader states routinely allied with one of those Muslim powers against the others, and sometimes Christian Crusader princes allied with Muslims against other Christian Crusader princes. The Crusades were far from a black and white, Muslim versus Christian issue my friend.
_random_ said:In addition to this, it was pretty well known that the Popes wanted jurisdiction over Eastern Christendom and were willing to use force to get it, and paying a Jizya would be preferable to being forced into heresy. Hence, "Better a turban than the Pope's tiara."
Why was the Byzantine Empire always the enemy of the Catholics and the Crusades?
They were both Christian right?
...and also remember emotions were still rather raw after the Great Schism.
John V united the two churches? Didn't he only proclaim his personal conversion to Catholicism?Among his first acts was writing to Pope Innocent VI asking for troops, which were granted provided he united the two Churches. He did so.
Lone Wolf said:John V united the two churches? Didn't he only proclaim his personal conversion to Catholicism?
This. He ordered the church to convert to Catholicism, but they managed to drag out the process long enough for it to not be done. The leaders of the Eastern Church did that a couple of times, actually. I'm sure Plotinus and Dachs would know more about that than I.I'm pretty sure he promised to, and nothing much ever came of it. And the Catholicism was after that.