Episode 103 - God-Loving
The History of Byzantium
Robin Pierson
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Young Theophilus becomes Emperor at a rare moment ofinternal peace. We look at his domestic policies across his 13 yearreign and touch on his non-Anatolian foreign policy.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:10.0 | Greetings listeners of the history of Byzantium. |
| 0:12.8 | Rabin does a wonderful job exploring and explaining the past of this eastern Orthodox and complicated |
| 0:18.6 | empire which lasted for a thousand years. |
| 0:21.8 | And I enjoy it and listen to it carefully because it reminds me of another huge eastern |
| 0:26.4 | empire which also lasted for quite a while but then collapsed. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm Kriteb Sandresons from the eastern border podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | I talk about the life in and the history of the Soviet Union, exploring the other side of the |
| 0:40.4 | Cold War using both historical sources and the stories of people who actually live there. |
| 0:45.6 | And whether those are people who are enduring the siege of Constantinople in the eighth century |
| 0:50.4 | or people in Soviet Gulfos who are starving to come in this government, |
| 0:54.4 | in the end their story matters. |
| 0:57.4 | So if you're interested check out the eastern border on iTunes, |
| 1:01.9 | stature or on our website, theeasternborder.lv. |
| 1:05.9 | But for now enjoy the show. |
| 1:08.5 | Remember somewhere somehow an iceman from the KGB is watching you and happiness is mandatory. |
| 1:24.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to the history of Byzantium. |
| 1:37.1 | Episode 103. |
| 1:39.8 | God loving. |
| 1:43.2 | As I've sat down to write each episode this century, it's felt like I needed to recap |
| 1:48.4 | what's gone before. This period hasn't been quite as chaotic as the game of musical chairs which |
| 1:54.7 | led up to the siege of 717, but today we do meet our 7th emperor in 27 years. |
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