06-05-2012, 06:12 PM
Quote:Thanks Matthew. Can you recommend any great literature covering that period? I just read John Julius Norwich's "Byzantium - The Early Centuries" and found it pretty informative.A good read is Treadgold, Warren (1995): Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 (Stanford).
Robert Vermaat
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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)