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The Byzantine Empire

Edward Foord

A concise and comprehensive guide to the Byzantine empire from Constantine to its dissolution. Foord explores in an accessible manner why it was important to history, the significance of noteworthy events, and how it eventually fell. While sometimes describing the experience of the everyday people, he mainly focuses on the wars and policies of Byzantine emperors. (Summary by Elsie Selwyn)

Genre(s): Middle Ages/Middle History

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface	Beth Thomas (1974-2020)	00:03:19
Play 01	Byzantium and Constantinople the Peerless Capital	esharp	00:22:14
Play 02	Constantine to Arcadius - Barbarian Influence	KevinS	00:31:35
Play 03	Theodosius II to Justinian I - Reorganization	Ariphron	00:46:57
Play 04	Justinian I	Beth Thomas (1974-2020)	00:46:31
Play 05	Justinian's Successors - Weakness and Decay	MajorHistory	00:27:29
Play 06	The Onset and Repulse of Iran - the coming of Islam	MajorHistory	01:05:05
Play 07	The Warrior Heracliads	MajorHistory	00:57:00
Play 08	Destruction of the Work of the Heracliads	MajorHistory	00:36:33
Play 09	The Repulse of Islam	MajorHistory	00:48:34
Play 10	The Iconoclasts	MajorHistory	00:53:11
Play 11	The Naval and Military Systems	MajorHistory	00:24:16
Play 12	Irene's Successors to Michael III	MajorHistory	00:59:15
Play 13	The Early Macedonians - Part 1	MajorHistory	00:30:45
Play 14	The Early Macedonians - Part 2	MajorHistory	00:31:03
Play 15	The Great Conquerors - Part 1	MajorHistory	00:35:01
Play 16	The Great Conquerors - Part 2	MajorHistory	00:36:08
Play 17	The Age of Women	MajorHistory	00:38:23
Play 18	The Coming of the Turks	Ryan Fahey	00:23:37
Play 19	The Comnenoi - the Last Great Rally, Part 1	MajorHistory	00:32:58
Play 20	The Comnenoi - the Last Great Rally, Part 2	MajorHistory	00:37:53
Play 21	The Angeloi - the Traitor's Stroke	MajorHistory	00:33:04
Play 22	Epilogue - The Death Agony	KevinS	00:35:37
Play 23	Byzantine Society - the Empire's Place in History	Diana Majlinger	00:15:52

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