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Byzantine Empire

Name: Byzantine Empire
Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman

Charles William Chadwick Oman

Read by Ric F, Robert Hoffman, Edmund Bloxam, xinamarieuhl, April Gonzales, Richard Carpenter and Andrew Nelson · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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00 - Preface (2:36)
01 - Byzantium (22:05)
02 - The Foundation of Constantinople (A.D. 328-330) (26:23)
03 - The Fight with the Goths (22:30)
04 - The Departure of the German (16:42)
05 - The Reorganization of the Eastern Empire (A.D 408-518) (19:23)
06 - Justinian (23:30)
07 - Justinian's Foreign Conquests (25:21)
08 - The End of Justinians Reign (22:20)
09 - The Coming of the Slavs (21:00)
10 - The Darkest Hour (20:32)
11 - Social and Religious Life (A.D. 320-620) (28:20)
12 - The Coming of the Saracens (26:11)
13 - The First Anarchy (16:16)
14 - The Saracens Turn Back (8:54)
15 - The Iconoclasts (A.D. 720-802) (16:50)
16 - The End of the Iconoclasts (A.D. 802-806) (23:13)
17 - The Literary Emperors and Their Time (A.D. 886-963) (17:23)
18 - Military Glory (21:03)
19 - The End of the Macedonian Dynasty (14:19)
20 - Manizikert (1057-1081) (13:18)
21 - The Comneni and the Crusades (22:46)
22 - The Latin Conquest of Constantinople (34:22)
23 - The Latin Empire and the Empire of Nicaea (1204-1261) (20:37)
24 - Decline and Decay (1261-1328) (22:32)
25 - The Turks in Europe (19:06)
26 - The End of a Long Tale (1370-1453) (31:02)