This video examines the traditional account of the First Arab Siege of Constantinople and how it has, in fact been misdated to the 670’s AD.
Chapters:
00:00 The Prelude
02:45 The First Arab Siege of Constantinople c.672-678
05:18 The Historiography
06:12 How Theophanes Created his Account
14:04 Theophanes’ Error!
15:42 Theophilos’ Account of the War
18:20 An Arab Siege of Constantinople in AD667-669?
Bibliography:
Primary Sources
Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum, Series secunda, edited by R. Riedinger, (1984-present).
Agapius, Khitab al-Unvan, edited by A. A. Vasiliev, (1912).
Chronicle of AD1234, edited by J. B. Chabot, (1916-1920).
Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, J. B. Chabot, (1899-1910)
Nikephoros, Short History, Translated by Cyril Mango (1990).
Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle AD284 – 813, translated by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott (1997).
Theophilus of Edessa, Chronicle – and the Circulation of Historical Knowledge in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, Translation by R. G. Hoyland (2011).
Scholarship
Haldon, J. (2008) The Byzantine Wars, Gloucestershire.
Jankowiak, J. ‘The First Arab Siege of Constantinople’ in Constructing the Seventh Century (2013), 237-322.
Jenkins, R. J. H. (1966) Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries AD610-1071, MART reprint, Toronto.
Treadgold, W. (1997) A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford.
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Centuries before, when the Goths besieged the City in 378, it was Arab warriors (before the advent of Islam) who ventured out of the walls and put the Goths to flight with their killing frenzy; one of the Arab warriors made quite an impression by fighting naked and by quenching his thirst with the blood of Goth warriors he had, himself, decapitated.
After watching this video, I cannot helped but wondering about this. Do you think that the sources of the First Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs are being contradicting and consuding on purpose? Do you think the propaganda to glorify the Arabs' second attempt during the reign of Emperor Leo III played a part in this? After all, peoples often talked a lot about the Second Siege of Constantinople by the Arabs with great utmost importance because such a success has the potential to change the history of the world botb before and even after what happened in 1453.
Wow, this video blew my mind! Never knew about this epic clash between empires. That Greek fire defense sounds insane!
long live the algorithm
Arabs fail to take constantinople, and Islamic empire began to dissolve and divided
l knew there was a debate about whether the siege of constantinople by the arabs in 667-669 was factual or not but l didnt know the nuances of it.Great video
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For this topic I recommend everyone read
“The Empire that would not die, the Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival 640-740” by John Haldon.
It covers this siege and is dedicated to analyzing how Byzantium survived all the events that happened to it during this period even accounting for things such as change in climate and its affect on Byzantine agriculture.
Leo knew that he had to lure it the arab on sea because the arab at time nearly toke amoria had the arab toke Anatolia the Byzantine would have lost for good just like turk did
To me Byzantine in 730 was better then 1180 why it cuz of Anatolia was far more important then bullkans and Italy had Manuel realise this early who knew if had retaking Anatolia he could have delayed Byzantine fall for many years
Man, people really jumped to conclusions back in the day. See an eclipse, or bad thunderstorm, or snow, or even a rainbow(!) and everyone's all "The world is about to end!!!"
It’ll be worth learning to pronounce “th”.
Great content !👍👍
First time I have ever come across the idea that the siege didn’t happen at this time. Looking forward to the next video.
Nice Rome Total War music insertion ❤
When animals besiege a civilized city.
Barbarian Invasion music!
Always wondered had the Sassanid-Byzantine war of the early 600s hadn’t occurred would the Arab conquest been as successful as it was. A fascinating time period in my opinion.
I wish you well-being from Asia Minor, the center of Eastern Roman. I follow your videos with interest. Today's Turks carry an average of 50% Eastern Roman blood. In some regions, this rate rises to 60-65%.