epilogue: justinian and the reconquest of the mediterranean
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·        532 – Justinian tries to break loose from circle – enormous um money to East – beats Vandals and then contends with Ostrogoths and Persian almost simultaneously. Did he know it was a Mediterranean based empire saving?

·        Time and time again Byzantine mastery of the sea mentioned – advantages over Goths.

·        Rouge conc. That Roman naval power in Med disappeared 0 as wars dragged on thalassokratia exposed as mirage – East could not afford expensive naval outings to the Med as wars in west dragged on.  Justinian’s army trapped on mainland without supplies.

·        Successors abandon West – new civilisation in West, not because Med blockaded, East could not take advantage of it, Babas rudimentary eco. Dev that unable to embark of grand commerce there without Byzantine stimulation.

·        Byzantine reaping poisonous harvest of dilemma – northern frontier Avars and Slavs and east great powers letting blood until triumphant advent of Islam.

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2. Attempts at Disengagement with the alliance with Persia
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6. Marcian and leo i between eprsia and the mediterranean
7. Pirenne and the Mediterranean
8. Strategic Geography
9. The crisis of 441-42 and the byzantine political dilemma
10. the mare nostrum as an economic, political and cultural entity in greek and latin sources
11. The mediterranean and financial liabilites towards persia
12. The mediterranean and the literary tradition of the roman world
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14. The vandals and the decline of mediterranean navigation
15. Theodoisus ii, yazdgard i and the mediterranean
16. Two great powers in Late antiquity : A comparison
17. Whittow – making of orthodox byzantium

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