Manuel launches a Crusade against the Turks of Iconium.
Period: 1174-76
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regarding the campaign of 1176; the question remains – would the political capital gained from taking Iconium been worth it, even if it could not be held in the long run?
Do you want me to try and answer that on the podcast? Or are you just musing 🙂
If you feel it is a question worth addressing then by all means answer it in the podcast! 🙂
On another note; it is strange feeling a sense of dread for a historical event (1204) that has already happened. I blame your fantastic narration and obvious admiration for Byzantium over the years! 🙂
You’re very kind 🙂
Another take on the historian’s trope about the advice of young and old: it could be a kind of literary allusion to the biblical story at 1 Kings 12:1-20, intended as a historiography of imperial hubris.
Could well be, Choniates’ text is littered with Biblical and Homeric quotations