III / Book I

The Byzantine Empire

Alexios I Komnenos rules an empire recovering from military crisis, surrounded by rivals and attempting to restore Roman authority from Constantinople.

On the eve of the First Crusade
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One place.
History moves through it.

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

The central political world of Book I
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