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The Late Byzantine Army - Arms and Society, 124-1453 (Paperback, Revised)
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The Late Byzantine Army - Arms and Society, 124-1453 (Paperback, Revised)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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The late Byzantine period was a time characterized by both civil
strife and foreign invasion, framed by two cataclysmic events: the
fall of Constantinople to the western Europeans in 1204 and again
to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Mark C. Bartusis here opens an
extraordinary window on the Byzantine Empire during its last
centuries by providing the first comprehensive treatment of the
dying empire's military. Although the Byzantine army was highly
visible, it was increasingly ineffective in preventing the
incursion of western European crusaders into the Aegean, the
advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the slow decline and
eventual fall of the thousand-year Byzantine Empire. Using all the
available Greek, western European, Slavic, and Turkish sources,
Bartusis describes the evolution of the army both as an institution
and as an instrument of imperial policy. He considers the army's
size, organization, administration, and the varieties of soldiers,
and he examines Byzantine feudalism and the army's impact on
society and the economy. In its extensive use of soldier companies
composed of foreign mercenaries, the Byzantine army had many
parallels with those of western Europe; in the final analysis,
Bartusis contends, the death of Byzantium was attributable more to
a shrinking fiscal base than to any lack of creative military
thinking on the part of its leaders.
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