Why You Should Be Thinking About the New Roman Empire

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - What do you mean "New" Roman Empire?
3:53 - I. They built a new Rome
11:49 - II. They survived a thousand years
14:34 - III. Their empire was really a republic
16:29 - IV. They were ahead of their time
19:37 - V. They invented the hospital
21:05 - VI. Their writers, artists & architects were second to none
24:05 - VII. They cracked the secret of silk
25:38 - VIII. They kept antiquity alive
28:23 - IX. They loved sports
30:55 - X. They embraced the underdog
33:40 - XI. They had viking bodyguards
35:41 - XII. Their frontiers had cowboys
39:28 - XIII. They inspired the great fantasy epics
42:55 - XIV. They were money-mad, status-obsessed & power-hungry
47:19 - XV. They were ROMANS

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SOURCES:
Brownworth, Lars. Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (2009)
Heather, Peter. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (2005)
Kaldellis, Anthony. The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium (2023)
Kaldellis, Anthony. Siniossoglou, Niketas. The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium (2017)
Mango, Cyril. The Oxford History of Byzantium (2002)
Runciman, Steven. Gibbon and Byzantium (1976)
Shepard, Jonathan. The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire (2009)