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st_prez
Jan 11, 2004 5:29 am
I'm new here, but I can't vote for any of them. You've missed mine, which is the death of John V in the plague and the retirement of John VI to a monastery in...
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st_prez
Jan 11, 2004 5:41 am
Again, none of the above. John VI Cantacuzene, who would have made a great _basileus_, but who ended up shredding the Empire beyond repair....
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Sebastian Brier
sebastianbrier
Jan 11, 2004 2:42 pm
Hi St._Prez, I like that angle for althist. Sorry I haven't been active on here for a while; it'll probably be a while too before I can spend time on history....
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st_prez
Jan 12, 2004 5:36 am
SB: Glad you liked it. That Timur-i-Leng thing was just like an earthquake or a power surge -- no way to predict it, but it was the last time the Ottomans...
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st_prez
Jan 12, 2004 5:47 am
Possibly. But it would have been hard to do the _megale idea_ without the _polis_. At worst, this might have drawn the Greeks in after Hitler, like so many...
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Jan 12, 2004 8:53 am
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st_prez
Jan 14, 2004 5:40 am
Modern category: Warren Treadgold, hands down, _the_ history of the Empire for the foreseeable future. Apparently he's not the victim of a Brit classical...
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st_prez
Jan 14, 2004 5:59 am
Name changes were more often involved when an emperor married a woman from outside the empire (e.g. the Irenes and Theodoras who grew up in Hungary and points...
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st_prez
Jan 14, 2004 6:13 am
Another possibility is killing off Justinian in the first plague, and replacing him with someone who would make a deal with Totila to end the Italian wars....
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st_prez
Jan 18, 2004 5:36 am
Yes, this was sort of what Mustapha Kemal was on about. The definition of = "turks," though, comes from the "Young Turk" movement that succeeded Abd-al-Hamid...
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st_prez
Jan 18, 2004 5:59 am
The Centauri Republic is obviously a projection of the Empire. Are the Narns space-faring Bulgars? Centauri atrocities on Narn and Centauri attitudes toward...
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Sebastian Brier
sebastianbrier
Jan 19, 2004 5:12 am
I really liked Babylon 5 but after the first couple of seasons I lost the ability to watch it. Too bad for that too, because it got even better after I...
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Ryan MacDonald
neobyzantium...
Jan 19, 2004 10:33 am
I will admit, the Centauri do seem in many ways similar to the Byzantines. One good example of this is that Centauri Lord Refa seems to act a great deal like...
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st_prez
Jan 21, 2004 4:51 am
Well, I've always enjoyed kind of improvising with history. This is probably true about all of us who read alternate history SF or hang around places like...
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st_prez
Jan 21, 2004 5:07 am
Point well made, although I don't share your opinion of the Catholic church. I assume you're talking about the 10th-century papacy? Actually, you can also...
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Ryan MacDonald
neobyzantium...
Jan 21, 2004 10:54 pm
Yes, I am thinking about that lousy 50 years after Basil II's death and beyond. As for the Dukas, they come into this message board because their actions...
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st_prez
Jan 22, 2004 4:41 am
OK. The historical results are exactly as described. But weren't the Doukai just playing family politics like everyone else at that point? The Komnenoi are...
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Adam Walker
graavgaaln
Jan 22, 2004 1:44 pm
Does anyone know where I could find a list of the descendants of Andronicus Angelus and their marriages for a coupl or three generations? Surely he had more ...
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st_prez
Jan 23, 2004 4:34 am
I've never seen an actual genealogy of the Angeloi that didn't have a lot o= f question marks, but Nicetas Choniates would probably have a lot of useful...
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st_prez
Jan 24, 2004 4:50 am
I'm sorry, I spoke too soon. Treadgods, in History of the Byzantine State = and Society, adds 2 more children. The 4 are: Isaac II, Alexius III, Theodore...
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Adam Walker
graavgaaln
Jan 24, 2004 2:16 pm
... Thanks! I'll do some searching for Theodore and Theodora's decendants later today. ... Nope. I've long forgotten the only couple of phrases I ever knew...
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Adam Walker
graavgaaln
Jan 26, 2004 4:11 am
... Thanks for the leads. After a couple of hours of Googling I was able to come up with what appears to be a full list of the NINE children of Andronikos...
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st_prez
Jan 26, 2004 4:22 am
OK, try again. Some obviously Greek roots ("son," "genealogy"). Completely= baffling orthography. The "dj" might be Croatian, but where does the tilde over...
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Adam Walker
graavgaaln
Jan 26, 2004 4:33 am
... I used to know "hello" and the first line of a song about freedom fighters. ... Interesting. I just finnished Runcimian's book on the Vespers. Good...
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st_prez
Jan 26, 2004 4:42 am
Verse 2 features Latin roots, but I'm still baffled by where the spelling comes from. "tr" ==> "rr"? "en" ==> "in"? I'm tempted to go out on a limb here and...