405. Norman Conquest: Medieval Mafia Invade The East (Part 5)

Sparen mit Azubi-Gehalt oder Baföck? Klingt utopisch, ist es aber nicht. Mit ETFs im Sparkassen Sparplan reichen schon kleine Beiträge, um von Anfang an was aufzubauen. Und das Beste? Du musst dafür kein Finanzprofi sein. Wir zeigen es dir, easy und ohne Fachdienst ist. Tippe jetzt auf das Banner und sichere dir deinen kostenlosen ETF-Vorsorge-Check. Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me. William Derymple.

And joining us for this pod is our old friend Peter Frankapan, who uh um was on one of the very first episodes uh of this pod uh two years ago, though. Uh since then he's published an astonishing book on climate change. Uh he's already the professor of global history at Oxford, the author of The Silk Roads, but In the next two episodes, we're gonna be taking him back to all the stuff he did. Uh at the beginning of his career and where he first made his name, and particularly looking uh in the next episode at his first book, The First Crusade, The Call from the East, which completely changed for many of us the way that we looked at

Looking at them in a sense from the point of view of Constantinople, uh, rather than from Rouen and Normandy. Uh and this is what we hope to do in these next two episodes. Well we hope to do it. And but can I just can I just clarify something before we go on, Peter, are you going to tell us off in this podcast? Because the last time you were up to you are my mother's favorite guest on Emplet. She absolutely adored it'cause you kicked our butts around the playground the last time you were up. And she was thinking, Ha! He's so fun! This is great. This is what they deserve. Finally, Mayadita put in her place. Marvelous. Marvelous. Um so when we think about the Normans, um, we think about obviously the Bay of Tapestry. Um but m you can stand in the eastern Mediterranean and chart their arrival.

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