"Political Castration and Mutilation in the Byzantine Empire " Topic
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| Tango01 | 14 Apr 2016 11:21 a.m. PST |
Old… but still interesting to read… "The great failing of politics in the Roman and Byzantine Empires was the lack of political participation by the different segments of society. Gone were the elected Roman assemblies which had the ultimate authority over elections, legislation, and criminal trials. The Senate became little more than a rubber stamp institution if it met at all. Over the centuries the Empire increasingly became a top down dictatorship. Without the old Roman system of elections the only choice to change government was murder, a violent coup d'état or civil war. The eastern Emperors used military force to grab power and adopted mutilation of political enemies to frighten the public into submission…"
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