The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: diplomacy

the ugly byzantine

2 October 2008, around 1.43.

Byzantine diplomacy was very expensive. Dowries, gifts, subsidies to whole nations, all involved the treasury in enormous sums. Even economic blockades, sometimes effectively employed towards the Saracens, were costly for the Empire also. The Government was moreover perfectly willing to pay its enemies direct not to invade its territory. Lawless princes across the frontier thus […]

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