11-08-2006, 07:32 AM
Quote:If you are discussing the Byzantine empire you cannot focus only on the early period! I think that would be to limited.That's what I fear -setting up an entire new section would move us away into the High Middle Ages if we would continue discussing the Byzantine Empire up to 1453. So why not stop at the capture of Constantinople by the Crusade (1204)? Or the defeat at Manzikert (1071)? Or just maybe until the rise of Islam and the Loss of the Middle East (Yarmuk 636), which also changed the face of the Empire.
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
