The Byzantine aristocracy and its military function.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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075465902X

The Byzantine aristocracy and its military function.

Cheynet, Jean-Claude.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2006

378 pages

$114.95

Hardcover

Variorum collected studies series

DF543

The aristocracy formed the social framework of the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries, says Cheynet, but it...

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