Episode 148 - Sources and Magnates

The History of Byzantium

Robin Pierson

History

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We return to our interview with Professor Kaldellis to discuss Basil II's reign. We talk about our sources, about his decision never to marry and his relationship with the landed magnates.

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0:40.6	Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium.
0:44.9	Episode 148. Sources and magnets.
0:50.6	We've reached the end of our mini-end of the century tour.
0:57.2	Essentially we've just clarified what the Byzantine expansion means for the narrative going forward.
1:04.3	We've looked at the new lands and the development of the army.
1:07.7	We've looked at the enemies rising to challenge the Romans and we've looked at our sources
1:12.7	asking how do we know what we know.
1:15.4	Today we return to that topic and we look ahead to the reign of Basil II.
1:23.6	I will be spoiling a lot of the details but I suspect most of you already know the outline.
1:31.5	Basil will spend the first 13 years of his reign dealing with challenges to his rule.
1:37.6	A John Zomiske's brother-in-law, Bada Skiros will be first,
1:42.7	then Nysephara's focus is nephew. Also called Bada's will follow.
1:48.7	Once he secured himself on the throne, Basil will endure a very long war with the revived Bulgarian
1:55.0	state, all the while fending off attacks in the east from the Fatimids. He will reign successfully
2:02.7	until 1025 when our century will actually close and will do a proper tour of the Byzantine world.
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