Twelve essays, including introduction and conclusion, come from an exploratory workshop on resource allocation and consumption as it relates to military activity held November 2003 at the U. of Birmin
Byzantium survived for 800 years, yet its dominions and power fluctuated dramatically during that time. John Haldon tells the story from the days when the Empire was barely clinging on to survival, to
In this groundbreaking critique of both traditional and Marxist notions of feudalism and of the pre-capitalist state, John Haldon considers the configuration of state and social relations in medieval
John Haldon’s beautifully illustrated book tracks the checkered history of an oriental enigma, a ‘lost empire’ which stood for a1,000 years against the might of Islam. He rete
Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World is the first comprehensive study of warfare and the Byzantine world from the sixth to the twelfth century. The book examines Byzantine attitudes to wa
This book presents the first analytical account in English of major developments within Byzantine culture, society and the state in the crucial formative period from c.610-717. The seventh century saw
Byzantinists, art historians, and other medievalists will welcome this new resource by Brubaker (art history) and Haldon (Byzantine history, both are at the U. of Birmingham, UK). The volume contains
