HIST 133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Italian Empire, Excommunication, Latin
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Prelude and context: byzantine empire (eastern roman empire, still fighting against the islamic states (turks, saracans, etc) Both sides say they are the new roman empire due to historical nostalgia (being rome is cool) and years of romanization. Still the strongest state in christendom: east west schism (1054 ad) / 1st schism. First split in the christian doctrine after being united by the nicaean. Result: roman christianity (west) and orthodox christianity (east) *it"s the reason why marble/gravel statues of god rarely exist in. *excommunication is an official process to kick someone out of the church: battle of manzikert (1071 ad) Muslims objective: conquer the city of aleppo. Alp arslan, turkish leader, heard a rumor of a preemptive attack by. Initially, byzantines were winning due to strong military traditions inherited from the roman era. : byzantine emperor romanos is captured in battle, sent to arslan and publicly humiliated. Byzantine army"s morale (will to fight) was destroyed and they were defeated.
