ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
In this post we present selected parts of the very interesting paper titled “The Soldier’s Life: Early Byzantine Masculinity and the Manliness of War“, by Michael Ed. Stewart, 2016. Continue reading “The Manliness of War in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire”
Up to now all that had been done was right and fair according to the laws of war, but what shall I say of that which followed? Continue reading “Polybius’ timeless and valuable notions on ‘civilized’ War; the Greeks were destroying their own temples long before the ‘Barbarian Invasions’”
Despite modern interpretations of the Empire, it was not without military dynamism throughout its 800-year hold on the East. Continue reading “What led the Komnenian Emperors to embrace aspects of the Western Way of War”
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