Naval Warfare under the Byzantine Empire: From Justinian I to the Fourth Crusade

An in-depth study of Byzantine naval power and its decisive role in the empire’s military, political, and territorial history.

While the armies of the Roman Empire, including its late 'Byzantine' phase, have been copiously studied, naval warfare of the period has been neglected. In part this is due to relative paucity of the available sources but Augustine H Kobayashi demonstrates that this does not imply a lack of maritime activity in this period; in fact quite the opposite is true.

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