523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)

1759.341 - 1785.943 Tom Holland

the original imperial capital, and the Byzantines acknowledged Rome as the older city, but they also said that compared to Constantinople, it counts as the lesser city. And so the people of Rome who were once the rulers of this great empire are now themselves kind of subjects. And the inferiority of Rome to Constantinople is institutionalized in the wake of its reconquest by Justinian's armies.