Episodes

  • Episode 302 - Colonial Occupation

    Episode 302 - Colonial Occupation
    Jul 10 2024

    We talk about the Latin occupied parts of Byzantium. What was life like for the conquered and the conquerors? Was the occupation a colonial enterprise?


    Period: 1204-61


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    27 mins
  • Episode 301 - The Fifth Crusade with Nicholas Morton

    Episode 301 - The Fifth Crusade with Nicholas Morton
    Jul 3 2024
    Professor Nicholas Morton returns to tell us the story of the Fifth Crusade. To learn more check out his book The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East.

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    54 mins
  • Episode 300 - The 10 Greatest Byzantine Emperors

    Episode 300 - The 10 Greatest Byzantine Emperors
    Jun 26 2024
    For our 300th episode I decided to do something different. I chose my 10 greatest Byzantine Emperors.

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    23 mins
  • Episode 299 - Baldwin II with John Giebfried

    Episode 299 - Baldwin II with John Giebfried
    Jun 19 2024

    With Constantinople back in Roman hands we explore the one vantage point we've ignored: the last Latin Emperor Baldwin II. Dr John Giebfried returns to give us Baldwin's biography.


    Period: 1215-61

    John completed his PhD in Medieval History at St Louis University in 2015 and has subsequently worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Georgia Southern University, East Georgia State College, and since 2022 has been a faculty member at the University of Vienna, where he teaches History and Digital Humanities. His academic work focuses on the Crusades, the Crusader-States, and European interactions with the Mongols.


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    49 mins
  • Episode 298 - The Providence of God

    Episode 298 - The Providence of God
    Jun 12 2024
    Theodore Laskaris II beds down his father's conquests in Europe. But his early death sees his family sidelined by Michael Palaiologos. The new Emperor needs some victories to legitimise his seizure of power and the fates reward him beyond all expectations.

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    29 mins
  • Episode 297 - The Rise and Rise of Nicaea

    Episode 297 - The Rise and Rise of Nicaea
    Jun 5 2024
    With the Bulgarians and Turks hobbled by the Mongols the field is clear for Nicaea. John Vatatzes annexes a huge swathe of European territory and is widely recognised as the true Roman Emperor.

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    24 mins
  • Episode 296 - The Mongol Storm with Nicholas Morton

    Episode 296 - The Mongol Storm with Nicholas Morton
    May 29 2024

    We talk to Dr Nicholas Morton about the arrival of the Mongols into the Byzantine world. Their confrontation with the Seljuks of Anatolia will have serious consequences.


    Dr Morton is Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. His new book The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East is available now.


    In it he offers a panoramic account of the Mongol invasions of the Middle East during the thirteenth century, examining these wars from the perspectives of the many different societies impacted by their conquests, including of course Byzantium.


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    45 mins
  • Episode 295 - The Forgotten Siege

    Episode 295 - The Forgotten Siege
    May 22 2024

    While Epirus was rising and falling, Nicaea was consolidating. John Vatatzes, the new Emperor, was competent at home and abroad. After years of consolidation he decided to besiege Constantinople. But he didn't act alone he invited an unlikely ally to join him.


    Period: 1215-37


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    27 mins