Early Medieval Byzantium and the End of the Ancient World
To talk of the Roman empire after 600 as Byzantine carries the implication that something fundamental had changed. Clearly the empire was much smaller, but was it also distinct as a social system? Did the Roman aristocracy adapt and survive in the seventh and eighth centuries, or did a new elite eme...
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2009
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