guys whos currently furious about the islamic expansion because he just realized how many ancient texts were lost in byzantium's slow fall
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Any sources/readings you’d recommend on this topic?
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hmmmm no, I only know from bits and pieces of dozens of history books how many texts existed and how many were lost, and how some were saved (often by Renaissance antiquities dweebs in Italy who shipped them out of Constantinople before it fell)
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admittedly the fourth crusade also fucked up a lot of the city :(https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/statues-of-constantinople/15F57FF9A211AC9C85F9F0F22E25FB03 …
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