After 14 years of negotiations, John VIII gathered intimidated Eastern bishops and signed a decree of union officially joining the Eastern and Western churches. He returned to riots in Constantinople — all who had signed publicly retracted their signatures — and Brownworth frames this failed gambit as the act that fatally undermined John's credibility with his own people.
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Episode 16 (9 mentions)
After 14 years of negotiations, John VIII gathered intimidated Eastern bishops and signed a decree of union officially joining the Eastern and Western churches. He returned to riots in Constantinople — all who had signed publicly retracted their signatures — and Brownworth frames this failed gambit as the act that fatally undermined John's credibility with his own people.
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