For ninety-nine years three Komnenian emperors - Alexios, John and Manuel - ruled the Byzantine Empire. They inherited a state on the brink of collapse, but by the time they were done they had built Byzantium back up into the most powerful European empire. Yet fortune is fickle. Shortly after Manuel died, his dynasty would collapse; not long after that, so too did the Empire - decapitated by the Fourth Crusade. How did this happen? Why did things fall apart so fast?
It was - if not the beginning of the end - then at least the beginning of the beginning of the end. Never again would the Byzantines have it so good.
00:00 Cycles of Empire
00:56 The Prelude to Catastrophe
05:37 The Regency
09:12 The Life and Times of Andronikos
13:36 Coups and Massacres
21:31 Northmen in the South
25:38 The Sicilian War
30:33 Tyrantfall
38:35 The Empire Strikes Back
40:50 The Last Komnenians
Music by Kevin MacLeod, with “Aetas Romana“ by Adrian von Zielger.
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