The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century by Alice-Mary Talbot, Denis F. Sullivan

The History of Leo the Deacon: Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century

Alice-Mary Talbot, Denis F. Sullivan

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Leo's firsthand experience of the campaigns and courts of two Byzantine emperors provides vivid descriptions of sieges, pitched battles, and ambushes. His account of the conspiracy against Nikephoros II Phokas, murdered as he slept on the floor in...

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