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In this book, the distinguished writer Edward Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more ... More

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"The Fourth Crusade 1202-04: The Betrayal of Byzantium".

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The "Parangelmata Poliorcetica" and the "Geodesia," two Greek treatises on the construction of devices for siege warfare, are products of 10th ... More

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A military history of the campaigns of Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. He twice defeated the ... More

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This volume presents a study of Byzantium in the 9th century. It explores Byzantine culture, art and religion, its relationship with Baghdad and the ... More

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Ranging from Sumer, the world's first imperial state, to the fall of the Byzantine Empire at Constantinople, this definitive three-volume set details ... More

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In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Turkish incursions into the ... More

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This text looks at the Byzantine era in history, not from the Western perception but from an Eastern approach. It looks at how history is portrayed ... More

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The book is a clear, up-to-date, reassessment of the Byzantine empire during a crucial phase in the history of the Near East. Against a geopolitical ... More

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Procopius is known to posterity as the historian of the eventful reign of Justinian (527-565 A.D.) and the chronicler of the great deeds of the ... More

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In her work, the historian Anna Komnene (1083 - 1153), daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I, deals with the period of her father's reign from ... More

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In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital ... More

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