Walter E. Kaegi is Professor of History, The University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Byzantium and the Decline of Rome (1968), Byzantine Military Unrest 471-843 (1981), Army, Society and Religion in Byzantium (1982), Some Thoughts on Byzantine Military Strategy (1983), and Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests (1992, paperback 1995).
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Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Armenia and Africa: the formative years
2. Internal and external challenges in the first decade of the reign
3. Taking the offensive
4. Peril and hope
5. The invasion of Mesopotamia
6. Five crucial years: a narrow window of opportunity
7. Tested again
8. Losing control
9. Conclusions
Chronological table
Bibliography
Index.
