We explore the life of Manuel II Palaiologos. The last Roman Emperor who we can actually get to know. We go through his life story and his writing to learn more about being the Basileus in an age of decline.
Pic: Manuel and Henry IV of England from the St Albans chronicle by Thomas Walsingham
Period: 1350-1425
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