Brownworth praises Manuel II as the reason the empire limped along another fifty years — refusing to be a vassal, he twice withstood a furious sultan at the walls. He was saved once by Tamerlane's shattering defeat of the Ottomans in 1402, and a second time he used Byzantine-style diplomacy, encouraging one of the sultan's sons to start a civil war that diverted the Ottoman threat.
Also known as: Manuel II Palaiologos
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Episode 16 (1 mention)
Brownworth praises Manuel II as the reason the empire limped along another fifty years — refusing to be a vassal, he twice withstood a furious sultan at the walls. He was saved once by Tamerlane's shattering defeat of the Ottomans in 1402, and a second time he used Byzantine-style diplomacy, encouraging one of the sultan's sons to start a civil war that diverted the Ottoman threat.
“Much of this was due to the emperor Manuel II, who, refusing to be a vassal, twice had”
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