Question
The 12th century saw the rise of this practice using heated plates or fumes, such as was done to John IV Laskeris, as people attempted to avoid the deaths more prevalent from using a hot iron. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this punishment commonly used against would-be revolters against Byzantine Emperors. Basil II earned the nickname “Bulgar Slayer” after performing this action en masse after the Battle of Kleidion.
ANSWER: blinding
[10m] Blinding became the predominant form of Byzantine punishment after this dynasty’s Leo III released his law code, the Ecloga. This dynasty’s Empress Irene blinded her own son, and it initiated Byzantine iconoclasm.
ANSWER: Isaurian Dynasty
[10h] Jake Ransohoff noted blinding replacing this other punishment for political rivals after Leontius did it to an Emperor who returned just ten years later and deposed Tiberias III with an army of Bugars and Slavs.
ANSWER: nose-cutting [or nose-slitting; or rhinotomy; accept any answer about cutting or amputating someone’s nose]
<Emmett Laurie, European History>
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