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

by Alice-Mary Talbot

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 front of his icons, is one of the most dramatic in Byzantine narrative histories. Alice-Mary Talbot and Denis F. Sullivan, with the assistance of George T. Dennis and Stamatina McGrath, include an extensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884023249
• ISBN13: 9780884023241
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Length: 264 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"