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The History of Byzantium

Episode 280 - The New Roman Empire with Anthony Kaldellis. Part 3 - Narrative

The History of Byzantium

Robin Pierson

History

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2024

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Professor Kaldellis' new history of Byzantium is out now in the USA and on Kindle everywhere.


In our third conversation we walk through the narrative picking out interesting things to talk about. The creation of Constantinople, Justinian's personality, Heraclius' achievements and life under the Sassanian occupation to name a few. 



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Players must be 18 or over. Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantine

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episode 280 the new Roman Empire with Anthony called Ellis part three narrative the bulk of 3. Narrative.

0:44.3

The bulk of Professor called Ellis's new book is of course a narrative of the entire history of

0:48.6

Byzantine.

0:49.6

It's a comprehensive walk-through of all the major political and cultural developments with footnotes

0:55.0

leading you to all the latest scholarship on the subject.

0:59.4

In parts one and two, we talked about aspects of the book's introduction which sets up who and what

1:04.9

Byzantine was. Today we get into the narrative. I picked out the topics I thought

1:10.4

would be most interesting to you, the listeners, and so I asked him about Justinian,

1:16.3

Heraclius, the Arab invasions, and then on to more recent quote-unquote events like the

1:22.0

collapse of the Komnenian system of government and the fourth

1:24.8

crusade. At the end of the interview we put out a call for your questions. In our next episode I will put your

1:32.4

questions to Professor Koldelis you can ask anything you like and

1:36.1

we'll do our best to get to as many of them as possible. Post them on social media on the website, patreon or email me the history of Bozantium at gmail.com.

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Don't dawdle though, as we will record again in a couple of weeks time.

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For now, enjoy the interview.

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