Short Stories: Manuel II's European Tour

Badass Stories from Byzantium

English - February 06, 2021 20:00 - 16 minutes - 23.2 MB
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Desperate times call for desperate measures. With an Ottoman army at the gates in Constantinople, Manuel II Palaiologos knew this all too well. In today's Short Stories episode, I tell of Manuel's trip to Western Europe, where he pled for aid and met the likes of Henry IV.

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