ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. Cardinal Isidore received a great deal of bad press among the Orthodox Greeks and Muscovite Rus', and among the Catholics in Italy, as he was a recipient of anti-Greek sentiment in Italy that seems to have been on the rise in the last years of his life. An exception within the western bad press is provided in far off Spain, which had not yet received large numbers of refugees from Greece and had not yet experienced or formulated anti-Greek sentiments that were already encountered in Italy. From the Greek perspective, the comments and evaluations of Isidore are mixed and for the main part are delineated along religious lines. Among the Greek supporters of church union and the Greek Catholics, Doukas reserves praise for the cardinal, but overlooks his activities on behalf of the defense of Constantinople.
