Justinian's Men Careers and Relationships of Byzantine Army Officers

This book explores the professional and social lives of the soldiers who served in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century. More than just a fighting force, this army was the setting in which hundreds of thousands of men forged relationships

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Justinian’s Men

Careers and Relationships of Byzantine Army Officers, 518-610 DAVID ALAN PARNELL

New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Series Editors Florin Curta University of Florida, USA Leonora Neville University of Wisconsin Madison, USA Shaun Tougher Cardiff University, UK

David Alan Parnell

Justinian’s Men Careers and Relationships of Byzantine Army Officers, 518–610

David Alan Parnell Indiana University Northwest Gary, Indiana, USA

New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture ISBN 978-1-137-56203-6 ISBN 978-1-137-56204-3 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56204-3

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I have accumulated many debts while writing this book. I would like first to acknowledge my institution, Indiana University Northwest, which has supported me with summer research funding several years in a row. Without the dedication of the administrators and faculty to the teacherscholar ideal, this book would have taken much longer to write. Even still, this book matured slowly, and the research involved led to many journal articles and conference presentations. I would like to thank all the people that reviewed my work and offered helpful comments along the way. There are too many of them to name and I hope that not naming them does not seem to decrease my gratitude. I must particularly acknowledge the publishers of Byzantinische Zeitschrift, the Journal