Episode 265 - The 10 Greatest Emperors with Anthony Kaldellis
The History of Byzantium
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The Rise and Fall of Manuil
He's had a number of capitals. They managed to recreate a kind of mini Constantinople at Nicaea, which was sort of a capital. He might have actually even been a usurper. There's some funny business around the way he came to the throne. And also he wrote this incredible letter to one of the popes. Which is just, I laugh every time I read it.
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