The medieval Eastern Romans looked up to their glorious past and down on their Latin cousins. The former would let them down time and time again and the latter would remind them through blood and fire that the west shared the same history. In Episode 4: Phoenix in the East, I tell of the disasters leading up to the Fourth Crusade and the Byzantine Empire's reclamation of Constantinople in the 13th century.
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