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Season 1 Episode 139
The First Crusade got off to a terrible start. The initial armies, referred to by historians as the 'People's Crusade' and the 'German Crusade' were …
4 hours ago
Does Climate History Unlock the Secrets of the Crusades?
Season 1 Episode 138
In this episode, we look at something called the Medieval Warm Period. This first came to our notice a long time ago in the writings of a medieval mo…
2 weeks ago
Why Were The Crusades So Popular?
Season 1 Episode 137
The Crusade present us with one of the greatest paradoxes in history. Why would Christianity, a peace-loving religion, condone such aggressive milita…
4 weeks ago
The Secrets of Ancient Nicaea
Season 1 Episode 136
In this episode, I tell you about my travels to Ancient Nicaea, a city that changed history from the famous First Council of Nicaea in AD 325, founda…
1 month, 1 week ago
Alexius Comnenus: The True Story
Season 1 Episode 135
Alexius Comnenus is a well-known Byzantine Emperor not least because his daughter, Anna, wrote one of the greatest works of medieval literature about…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Battle of Manzikert
Season 1 Episode 134
The Battle of Manzikert in 1071 changed history. Not only was it the first step towards the end of the Byzantine Empire but it also established the f…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Rise of the Seljuk Turks
Season 1 Episode 133
In this episode, we’ll look at why the Seljuk Turks suddenly appeared in the Middle East in the eleventh century.
The name Seljuk and the origins of …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Road to Manzikert
Season 1 Episode 132
In the years from 1068 to 1071, the Byzantine emperor Romanus Diogenes tried but failed to stem the Turkish raids into Anatolia. Finally, he decided …
3 months ago
New Name, Same Show!
The Fall of the Roman Empire podcast is now called Echoes of Empires.
Why change the name? Well, as you know, this podcast has already moved beyond th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Origins of the First Crusade
Season 1 Episode 131
Welcome to Echoes of Empires, my new podcast which is the successor to the Fall of the Roman Empire.
In this episode, I want to look at the First Cru…
3 months, 2 weeks ago