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Not that the Byzantine Romaioi saw this as a major cultural problem, if anything they saw it as Western Europe's problem for being cut off from them.
但拜占庭的罗马人却并不把这一点看做一个主要的文化问题，如果他们认为分离有原因的话，那原因也是出在西欧方面。
Indeed under the Emperor Heraclius who ruled from 610 to 641 AD, the Byzantine Empire was reorganized into themes instead of provinces.
公元610年到641年，在赫拉克利乌斯皇帝的统治下，拜占庭帝国是以行政区而非省份进行划分的。
And its official language went back from Latin to Greek for good.
官方语言也由拉丁语转回了希腊语。
This enforced isolation of East from West also meant that the Eastern and Western branches of the Christian Church started growing apart from each other.
这也就造成了东西方之间的分离，同时也使基督教的东正教和天主教开始渐渐分离。
Meanwhile powerful Popes, such as Gregory I were cementing the Roman Church's spiritual and secular power inthe West.
同时，强势的教皇如格雷戈里一世都试图在西欧巩固罗马教廷精神上和世俗的权力。
On Christmas Day 800 AD Pope Leon III crowned Charlemagne King of the France as Emperor of the West.
公元800年的圣诞节那天，教皇里昂三世加冕为“查理曼大帝”，也就是法兰西国王西罗马皇帝。
In rival of the Eastern Emperor in both politics and religion.
在政治上和宗教上和东罗马教皇分庭抗礼。
For its part the Eastern Church was consumed with seemingly trifling philosophical disputes.
东正教会此时却深受无聊的哲学分歧的困扰。
The most violent of these disputes concerned the role of Icons in worship.
哲学分歧中最激烈的就是礼拜时圣像的作用。
This Icon smashing craze caught up Emperors and common folk alike.
砸圣像的狂潮把君主和普通百姓都卷了进去。
Until the Icon smashing faction was shut down permanently and violently in 843 AD.
直到公元843年这一狂潮被暴力制止才算完全平息了下来。
