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A bit ironic in my mind that people enjoying living in a city infamous for gaining much of its historical wealth and art by betraying the Byzantines and sacking
by elcritch 1y ago
A bit ironic in my mind that people enjoying living in a city infamous for gaining much of its historical wealth and art by betraying the Byzantines and sacking Constantinople under the guise of helping it [1] are now complaining about ultra wealthy people renting out the place to enjoy that historical art.
1: https://gentlemanscodes.com/chivalry/the-sack-of-constantinople-a-betrayal-of-chivalric-code https://gentlemanscodes.com/chivalry/the-sack-of-constantino...
2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
- graemep 1y agoThey also gained wealth through trade. As for Constantinople, historians argue about who betrayed who. The counter argument is that the Byzantines refused them promised supplies leaving them no option but to take them by force or starve. Even the same historian in different books can make it look quite different (Peter Frankopan's description the The Silk Roads reads quite differently from one of his other books).
- tetris11 1y agoSome people yes, many others moved there for the work and settled. Like any other city in the world.
- ramraj07 1y agoThis might be a new record for blaming people for something that happened so many eons ago its not even likely they're descendants.
- tzs 1y agoIt is probably a lot more likely that they are descendants than you would expect. Any given random person from a long time ago tends to have either no living descendants now or a whole lot of them. The sacking of Constantinople was long enough ago that probably most now people in Europe are descended from people who were involved.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoMost likely descended from both sides.
- ramraj07 1y agoWhich only means that by your logic no one should complain about bezos anywhere.. proving the rebuttal.
- elcritch 1y agoI try! Ok I’m not blaming the people now for being descendants. The lead character in the story was an American foreigner anyways. When I took on of the boats around Venice I had a European couple going on about it. They kept calling it a city of thieves, shrug. More that for a city where important pieces of the historical artifacts and art was stolen by betrayal it’s a bit ironic to complain about modern wealthy people. As in “how dare rich opportunistic Bezos rent this city where he can see beautiful Byzantine treasures stolen by rich opportunistic Doge Enrico Don-solo.” Then again maybe it is an intentional backdrop for the story.
- vr46 1y agoYes, in a similar vein, London has never really been the same since those bloody Huguenots refugees turned up with all their weaving nonsense.