Pic: By kind listener Amy Reilly
How do you explain your strange interest in Byzantium to your friends and family? I argue that you can’t understand the modern world without Byzantium.
This is the last episode of the podcast.
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will the blog still be updated once in a while? It was a fun ride.
Gracias Robin.
You were a wonderful guide through this amazing journey.
All the best to you.
Thank you for everything! I started listening to you back in 2010 or so. Haven’t listened to everything, yet, but it’s been an amazing ride.
After the end of the *History of Rome* podcast, I wanted to hear the rest of the story. I think you have provided it, and more then I had ever hoped to hear of it. This has been a fantastic show that I will dearly miss in my RSS Feed, and I look forward to seeing what you’ll do next so that I can follow that as well.
Thank you for doing this series.
I am about 15 episodes to listen behind you, which gives me an odd feeling of impeding doom! 🙂
Incredible content. There were some absolute bangers: Justinian’s Legacy, The plague, Thomas the Slav, The Battle of Antioch, The final siege, just to name a few.
Thank you for bringing the story of this civilization to all of us.
May your podcast be available for another 1,000 years!
Well, here we are at the end. It’s hard to believe I’ve been listening for the better part of a decade. I was a latecomer, having found the history of rome years after it ended, and searching for something to continue the story. I was already fascinated by the Byzantines, they seemed like something out a fantasy world; a massive city jutting into the sea with a great chain over the bay, viking bodyguards for its emperors, soldiers with flamethrowers. When I first found you it was 2018 or 2019, and you were part way through the second iconoclasm when I first caught up, and since then I’ve been a constant listener. I’ve gained a much deeper appreciation for the later Romans through this podcast, and your talks with historians like professor kaldelis and your own deepening understanding have given me a much better view of history and how to think about sources critically. It makes me sad knowing it’s all over, I’m going to miss checking in to see what topic is being covered this week or what expert you’ve brought in to interview. But at the same time I couldn’t be more thankful that I’ve been able to experience this.
I’ve been a silent listener all these years, I think I left exactly one comment years ago half jokingly suggesting that a 1st crusade series following Bohemond, Alexios, and Kilij Arslan would make for some golden tv if done right, but that was the only time I ever said anything.
But I feel like now that it’s all over is another tome to speak up. Thank you Robin, for everything you’ve given us over the years. Thank you for taking us on this journery through history together, thank you for introducing me to wonderful new sources and professors to dig into, and thank you for helping me develop intellectually.
Thank you all so much
Hi, I would like to say a sincere thank you for this podcast and just tell you a bit about my experience.
My own ‘strange interest’ in Byzantium started in 2017 just after I left university. I picked up this podcast and listened to it until I was up to date. I then vowed to put it down until you were done, so I could binge it. ‘Binge’ actually feels like the wrong word because listening to this as one continuous narrative, without interruption, allows a level of immersion and focus that makes it a better experience.
I’ve been settling back down into the narrative and I have reached the end of the reign of poor Romanos IV (if God loves a trier, the Byzantine court does not) and am really looking forward to the rest, which I’ll catch on the Patreon feed. You deserve every bit of praise and every reward you get for this one-of-a-kind podcast. The narrative never feels too fast, nor too bogged down by details. You make time to discuss the sources but it remains a history podcast not a historiography podcast.
Hats off to you and good luck with whatever you do next
Thank you so much, I really appreciate the kind words