Rosmer CreativeIII / Book I
Constantinople
The capital of Alexios I Komnenos: a city of palace intrigue, Orthodox authority, immense wealth and defensive power before the First Crusade reaches its gates.
The Komnenian restorationOne place.
History moves through it.
You are viewing Constantinople 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.
Constantinople at the opening of Book I