Byzantium: The ApogeeDescribes Byzantium's battles against foreign threats, its internal conflicts, the return of iconoclasm in the ninth century, and the struggles between Anatolia's military aristocracy and the eunuchs of the capital |
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Contents
Krum 80014 | 14 |
The Return of Iconoclasm 81429 | 21 |
Theophilus 82942 | 42 |
Copyright | |
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