III / Book III

The Byzantine Empire

The empire confronts a transformed eastern frontier as newly founded Crusader states complicate its claims, alliances and rivalries.

After the First Crusade
Book III / Period view

One place.
History moves through it.

You are viewing The Byzantine Empire during Silhouetted Adversaries. The place remains one canonical record while its political, religious and physical context changes with the period of each book.

The Byzantine world as encountered in Book III
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