Tag: byzantine emperor

• THE CRUSADES, PART THREE: CRUSADERS GONE WILD!

  In 1204 a singular event occurred which shook the Western World: Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman (“Byzantine”) Empire,  long the bastion of Eastern Christendom and bulwark against Islamic expansion, was captured and sacked. Not by its Muslim enemies; but by an army of Christian “Crusaders”! Thus began a period in which the Crusader movement…

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  April 22, 2013

  História Medieval

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• English Refugees in the Byzantine Armed Forces: The Varangian Guard and Anglo-Saxon Ethnic Consciousness

  

    English Refugees in the Byzantine Armed Forces:  The Varangian Guard and Anglo-Saxon Ethnic Consciousness  By Nicholas C.J. Pappas Sam Houston State University (2004) One of the most interesting episodes in Byzantine military history and in medieval English history is the Anglo-Saxon participation and service in the Varangian Guards regiment from the late 11th to…

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  July 11, 2012

  Anglo-Saxons History

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