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Episode 324 – Just Another Beylik
🕑 Added 2025-05-02 21:40:24 +0000 UTCJohn V Palaiologos takes charge of the Empire but finds he has only one option left to save his state. He must travel West and beg for Latin help. Meanwhile the Turks conquer Thrace.
Period: 1355-71
Map: The breakup of the Serbian Empire c 1360 AD
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RCS
What is happening now (well at this point in the podcast) is what our schoolbooks made it sound like was happening in 476. But this is so much worse.
Robin Pierson
Sorry to hear that. Could you try deleting your Patreon feed and then re-adding it? https://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/podcast-app-instructions-for-rss-feed/ instructions here if you need a reminder
William
Most of the episodes disappeared from my ad-free YouTube Music feed and I don't know a better place to tell you this.
Charles Merrick
Great Epsiode. There seems to be a zeitgeist out there that this state was the Roman Empire and the continuing of the traditions of Augustus. But at some point that stopped being true. I'm inclined towards Edward Lutwick's opinion that it ended in 1204 and that the state reformed in 1261 was a pale imitation. However, maybe to be generous to the successes that came after it ended with the death of Andronikos III. It was then that the state gave up on "struggle of Sisyphus" and just lingered for another century.
Jack Hanke
Every week this podcast gets harder and harder to listen to. I thought the Black Death was bad enough. Now the Romans are being described as the prey in "hunting grounds." Awful stuff. The people of the region must truly have felt that the world was ending. I certainly would have.
Robin Pierson
Amadeo didn't turn up till 1366. So they had 12 years of shipping people over till they lost it. They will regain it soon
Robin Pierson
100%
Kωnstantinos T.
It's giving "Even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, as long as they remain on the other side of the Narrow Sea, They have no ships Robert!" Vibes
Guillem N
You say that the crusade takes back Gallipoli, but then the Ottomans use it as a base to conquer Thrace? When they did recover it?
Paul Astalas
If only the turks could have been pushed out of Galipoli
Che
I am incredibly excited for next week's episode!
Liutprand
One thing I’ve always considered for the lack of Byzantine historiography between Kantakouzenos and Gregoras and Kritovoulos after the capture of Constantinople is the difficulty of framing the events, as it was clear that the Ottomans would take the city soon enough (there were three previous sieges before they finally captured the city) and that everyone was just waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak.
