The Basilica Cistern today (photo from ramyad.net)
We take a look at what else was going on in the Empire during the 530s including: monophysites, tax and administration, buildings, Africa and possibly a meteor strike.
Period: 532-540
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I just love listening to this podcast and it’s getting exciting now that we’re getting to the juicy bit… looking forward to the next episode!
I’m glad you’re enjoying it, definitely about to get juicy 🙂
Glad that you are continuing where Rome left off! I truly enjoy your podcast!
I always intended to follow the podcast after you said you’d pick up from THoR, but I only just got around to it now… fantastic work, sir! I’m enjoying it immensely.
Thanks so much to both of you for the kind words
Great podcast. I believe you had a small misspeak in the episode. You said that farmers had to transport their corn to port, causing spoliation. But corn was a New World plant, so it must have been a different product.
Corn’, in the American sense of the term, is in Britain called ‘maize’, which came to Europe much later from the New World. But ‘corn’ in British usage means the same as ‘grain’ in North American usage – a generic term covering wheat, barley, oats etc – and that is what is intended in the British version of SARUM.