By Mark C. Bartusis
The overdue Byzantine interval was once a time characterised by way of either civil strife and overseas invasion, framed via cataclysmic occasions: the autumn of Constantinople to the western Europeans in 1204 and back to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Mark C. Bartusis the following opens a rare window at the Byzantine Empire in the course of its final centuries by way of delivering the 1st entire therapy of the death empire's military.
Although the Byzantine military used to be hugely obvious, it was once more and more useless in combating the incursion of western ecu crusaders into the Aegean, the improvement of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the gradual decline and eventual fall of the thousand-year Byzantine Empire. utilizing all of the to be had Greek, western eu, Slavic, and Turkish assets, Bartusis describes the evolution of the military either as an establishment and as an software of imperial coverage. He considers the army's dimension, association, management, and the different types of squaddies, and he examines Byzantine feudalism and the army's impression on society and the economy.
In its wide use of soldier businesses composed of overseas mercenaries, the Byzantine military had many parallels with these of western Europe; within the bottom line, Bartusis contends, the dying of Byzantium used to be attributable extra to a shrinking financial base than to any loss of inventive army considering at the a part of its leaders.
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