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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
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For example, they viewed the Byzantine Emperor, through whose lands they had to travel, as an annoying irrelevance, denying him even so much as a consultative role in the proceedings.
Question:
What is annoying? Is it the fact that the medieval crusaders had to travel through the land of the Emperor or the denial of his advice?
I think the latter? I feel it but I do not know it.
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Question:
What is annoying? Is it the fact that the medieval crusaders had to travel through the land of the Emperor or the denial of his advice?
I think the latter? I feel it but I do not know it.
How could I know it for sure?
Can you give me some useful suggestions?
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they viewed the Byzantine Emperor, through whose lands they had to travel, as an annoying irrelevance The Byzantine Emperor was annoying to the crusaders and that is the only annoyance explicit and of importance here. Clear to me. Not taking his advice might have been annoying to the Byzantine Emperor, but not to the the crusaders, and isn't the subject of discussion here.
- they viewed the Byzantine Emperor, through whose lands they had to travel, as an annoying irrelevance The Byzantine Emperor was annoying to the crusaders and that is the only annoyance explicit and of importance here.
- Clear to me.
- Not taking his advice might have been annoying to the Byzantine Emperor, but not to the the crusaders, and isn't the subject of discussion here.
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... they viewed the Byzantine Emperor, through whose lands they had to travel, as an annoying irrelevance
The Byzantine Emperor was annoying to the crusaders and that is the only annoyance explicit and of importance here. Clear to me.
Not taking his advice might have been annoying to the
The Byzantine Emperor was annoying to the crusaders and that is the only annoyance explicit and of importance here. Clear to me.
Not taking his advice might have been annoying to the
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Thanks.
"Not taking his advice isn't the subject of discussion here."
"Not taking his advice isn't the subject of discussion here."
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They considered the emperor insignificant and unimportant to their goals. They didn't feel that he could help advance their cause. But he was the emperor, after all, so they probably had to go through the motions of acknowledging his existence in some official way or other, which would have been irksome for them to do. You might say that they had to "put up with" him or "go along with" his
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