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ait out an Athos storm, you
.ore dramatic haven than
.gh on a spur above the Ae-
s dovecote of cells onto tiers
iies propped by aged beams.
ne 800 feet over the sea in a
f faith. Clutching the splin-
ng over a gap in the floor
down mesmerized at walls
ng walls of rock.
nonopetra no longer shook.
c)st its howl; the sea was flat
No more dodging waves. I
Not so that boy who looked
he leaped across the rocks, a
rn away before his father's
I boats ran again, they found
HE YEAR 1071 was a bad one for the
Byzantines, East and West. At Man-
Tzikert, in the highlands of eastern
Turkey, the multinational Byzantine
Army, riven by dissensions and desertions
and for once sloppy in reconnaissance, was
annihilated by the invading Seljuk Turks
it had marched east to destroy. Anatolia,
breadbasket and prime recruiting ground
for Byzantium, subsequently was stripped
forever from Christendom, opening the way
to later Ottoman invasions of Europe.
   In Bari, port city in southeastern Italy, I
saw blood on the pavement. Assassins had
gunned down a political opponent, and
grieving partisans -Marched around the stain
in bitter memorial. Nine centuries earlier
blood had flowed in the streets of Byzantine
Bari, sacked by the Normans after a three-
year siege. Five years after the Battle of
Hastings in England, the Normans had con-
quered southern Italy.
   The year 1204 was even worse. On April
13, Fourth Crusaders en route to Jerusalem
committed what historian Sir Steven Runci-
man called "the greatest crime in history"-
the Christian sack of Constantinople.
Burning, pillaging, raping, the crusaders
looted what they didn't destroy to enrich
Venice, Paris, Turin, and other Western
centers with "every choicest thing found
upon the earth." (They even brought back
two heads of John the Baptist, so rich was
Constantinople in relics.)
   When, after 5 7 years, a Byzantine emper-
or once again reigned in Constantinople, the
al Geographic, December 1983 The Byzantine Empire
CPYRGHT
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