The Soldier's Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas in the Early Byzantine Empire, Paperback - Michael Edward Stewart

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DescriptionByzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and ...

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Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingThe Byzantine Empire existed for over a thousand years, with a history spanning from ...

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An abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into ...

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