Taxation in the Byzantine Empire
Subject in History
Taxation in the Byzantine Empire has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Anthony KaldellisHistorian of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire at the University of Chicago and author of "The New Roman Empire"
Kaldellis rejects the scholarly notion of isolated rural communities cut off from the state, arguing census, taxes, church and coinage enmeshed everyone.
“These people do not exist, these isolated peasants. This is a myth that one day I'm going to write a chapter about this”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires (Jun 30, 2026) · Listen from 2:24:06
Kaldellis identifies taxation as the single most important factor at the heart of the Roman state.
“If you asked me to put my finger on one factor, it would be that”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires (Jun 30, 2026) · Listen from 1:16:20
Podcasts
- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of EmpiresLex Fridman Podcast · Jun 30, 2026 · 3 h 59 min
Historian Anthony Kaldellis and Lex Fridman trace 2,200 years of Roman history, arguing the Byzantine Empire was simply the Roman Empire and explaining its longevity.