Medievalist Steven Runciman described the medieval European view of the Byzantine Empire by saying:
— Steven Runciman, The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium, 1988[8]
Ever since our rough crusading forefathers first saw Constantinople and met, to their contemptuous disgust, a society where everyone read and wrote, ate food with forks and preferred diplomacy to war, it has been fashionable to pass the Byzantines by with scorn and to use their name as synonymous with decadence.
— Steven Runciman, The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium, 1988[8]
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Steven Runciman
British historian of the Middle Ages (1903–2000)
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ngl palestine-israel relations and bureaucracy are perhaps an absolute nightmare when you go read stuff up. jews literally allow them to exist since 1967
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imagine being so fucking retarded you have to practice this much just to make a couple of things enter your brain
I bet this bitch was so mad when someone told her what a .pdf is.
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you know, IQ and tests make sense until you go and see the number of scientific documents each country outputs per capita and suddently chinese are fucking retarded??
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you know, IQ and tests make sense until you go and see the number of scientific documents each country outputs per capita and suddently chinese are fucking retarded??
You have never met rural Chinese. They are literal cave people
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You have never met rural Chinese. They are literal cave people
point is a Germany or USA citizen is 5.5 times more likely to release original scientific papers than a gook
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