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It’s widely accepted that the number of eight thousand Byzantine soldiers slaughtered at the battle of the Scultenna river (643), reported by Paul the Deacon, using as his source the “Origo Gentis Langobardorum”, has been greatly exaggerated, mainly to ...
Mattia Caprioli
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Manuele I Comneno e la crociata: uno strumento di egemonia imperiale?
Historiography has often read in battle of Miriocephalus (1176), in which the Seljuks of Rûm severely defeated the Byzantine army, a sort of “Byzantine crusade”.
Carlo Venturi
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Caliph Al-Mu‘tasim’s Expedition against Amorion in 838 AD: The Chronology Reconsidered
This research offers a detailed reconstruction of one of the most famous episodes of Byzantine-Arab relations in the ninth century, the victorious campaign of the Abbasid army led by Caliph al-Mu‘tasim deep into the territory of Byzantium in 838 AD ...
Pavel Vladimirovich Kuzenkov
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A contribution to the study of lamellar armors [PDF]
The work is based on the finds of lamellar armors from the Early Byzantine site Svetinja at Viminacium. In addition to the analysis of the finds we presented also the analogies from Early Byzantine, Germanic and Avar contexts and we also paid attention ...
Bugarski Ivan
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This paper considers the duties and formation peculiarities of the office of strategos (commander-in-chief of any regional Byzantine army) during the early stage of its existence, i.е. between the 7th and first half of the 8th centuries.
Еvgeny Аleksandrovich Меkhamadiev
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Persian Immigrants in the Armed Forces of Early Byzantium
Introduction. The article is devoted to Persians who served in the Early Byzantine armed forces. Even during the Principate period, alae and cohortes which were originally recruited from Parthians were part of the Roman imperial army.
Andrey D. Nazarov
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Early Byzantine encolpia and Images of Holy Sepulchre Shrines, from Tomb 39A at Pella in Jordan
The unrobbed Early Byzantine Tomb 39A at Pella in the North Jordan Valley was published twice in exemplary detail in 1982, a year after excavation. McNicoll suggested a biography through tomb-goods of a pagan army veteran who had collected a piece of ...
O'Hea, M.
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The paper is devoted to identifying the specifics of internal organizational methods used in the Byzantine army during the reign of the Palaeologus.
Vladimir Zolotovskiy
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Paulicjanie w Bizancjum – uciekinierzy i przesiedleńcy
Paulicians in Byzantium: The fleeing and the displaced Paulicians, treated as Manicheans and persecuted in Armenia and the Byzantine Empire, escaped to the Arab-occupied territories where they ...
Teresa Wolińska
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Religious services in the Byzantine army according to the Taktika and Praecepta Militaria: Worship and Athonite influences in the 10th century [PDF]
Byzantine military manuals are a shared sphere of interest of Byzantine studies and Orthodox theology. This paper deals with religious content in the Taktika of Leo VI the Wise and Praecepta Militaria of Nikephoros II Phokas by analyzing the ...
Tubin Slaviša
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