Michael VIII Palaeologos and the Byzantine Dilemma

from Light Through the Past · host Dr. Cyril Jenkins

In this episode Dr. Jenkins unpacks the perilous aftermath of the Byzantine reconquest of Constantinople, and the extreme ecclesiastical length's the emperor was willing to take to secure the Empire's safety.

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