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
Comments
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.
RCS
2025-06-20 01:56:53 +0000 UTCSorry 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
Robin Pierson
2025-05-09 12:03:06 +0000 UTCMost of the episodes disappeared from my ad-free YouTube Music feed and I don't know a better place to tell you this.
William
2025-05-09 06:17:45 +0000 UTCGreat 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.
Charles Merrick
2025-05-07 01:07:01 +0000 UTCEvery 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.
Jack Hanke
2025-05-05 11:24:49 +0000 UTCAmadeo 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
2025-05-04 06:39:25 +0000 UTC100%
Robin Pierson
2025-05-04 06:38:14 +0000 UTCIt'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
Kωnstantinos T.
2025-05-04 06:17:05 +0000 UTCYou say that the crusade takes back Gallipoli, but then the Ottomans use it as a base to conquer Thrace? When they did recover it?
Guillem N
2025-05-03 08:16:10 +0000 UTCIf only the turks could have been pushed out of Galipoli
Paul Astalas
2025-05-03 05:36:15 +0000 UTCI am incredibly excited for next week's episode!
Che
2025-05-03 01:37:13 +0000 UTCOne 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.
Liutprand
2025-05-03 00:24:00 +0000 UTC
