Episode 277 - The New Roman Empire with Anthony Kaldellis. Part 1 - Government

Professor Kaldellis' new history of Byzantium is out now in the USA and on Kindle everywhere. He has kindly agreed to talk to us about it across 4 episodes!
In this first conversation we discuss the new Roman government that Constantine established in 330AD. What was the 'personality' of government? How did it achieve legitimacy in the eyes of the people? Was it really a Republican Monarchy?
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  • @zzhanz6912
    @zzhanz691219 күн бұрын

    This interview just made me love Eastern Roman Empire so much more.

  • @alexrediger2099
    @alexrediger209910 күн бұрын

    Please connect this to Michael Hudson's "And Forgive Them Their Debts" and "The Collapse of Antiquity". He points to Byzantium as breaking the tradition of Rome and taking on rather the more ancient Mesopotamian tradition of the ruler protecting the people and cancelling debt-- in order to maintain rule and keep private wealth (often through government officials) from taking political power through people's debt.