Birth of the Byzantine Army 476-641 CE Volume 1: Still Late Roman?

Birth of the Byzantine Army challenges the long-standing historiographical tendency to focus exclusively on the Romano-Byzantine army during Justinian’s reign (527–565 CE), overlooking the Eastern emperors who preceded him after the fall of the Western Empire in 476. This study extends the scope to the end of Heraclius’ reign in 641—the last soldier-emperor of the Late Roman tradition. By then, the Slavs had overrun the Latin-speaking lands of the Balkans, while Muslim forces had taken Syri...