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

1796.072 - 1815.458 Tom Holland

It had. But I mean, it's embarrassing. Rome is not just a provincial capital. It's not even a capital at all. The emperor kind of lavishes Byzantine titles on the Roman aristocracy. Byzantine fashions become all the rage. People speak Greek. There are Greek churches set up in Rome. And Rome becomes essentially a kind of ersatz version of Constantinople.

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