tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post1537776072668749852..comments2024-02-02T19:29:31.953-08:00Comments on Byzantine Military: The Decline of the Roman Army before ManzikertGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09879366155439374458noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-31799402155659109142018-01-12T06:07:44.736-08:002018-01-12T06:07:44.736-08:00It`s a shame that this blog doesn`t got more tham ...It`s a shame that this blog doesn`t got more tham , one or two commentators ...<br />even if i use a lot of names , or anonymous ones , i reckon that we are only two , the postmaster and i .<br />but this subject is really interesting , and prone to drawn conclusions on the world history .<br />europe and the west was for ages the scene from gore wars , and rampage feuds , and if now , and after the WWII we got a more , if not global , peacefull globe ... is something that we most cherish .<br />things are what we face now , after centuries of sometimes massmurder .<br />byzantium was not a democracy , and by far a model of virtue ... even that the imaginetic is great and glorious ... but the opposite was also not so great as such , even worse some say .<br />Neverdeless lessons could be drawn for this future of ours , some are craved in sentences from thinkers from China to America .<br />But people only can see till the horizon , they stoped to reach the mind above that line .<br />Thats what happens now .<br />But maybe someone think that also in the europe 30 `s too .<br />No matter.<br />The same mistakes still haunt mankind , and others are born too in this age .<br />Let then enjoy those histories , without the burden of interpetation too .<br />As so ... nobody cares .<br />Count Dukos Big onenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-75470211548826142182018-01-08T03:06:43.180-08:002018-01-08T03:06:43.180-08:00when next post, gary ?when next post, gary ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-63879043247266475172017-12-19T06:43:00.173-08:002017-12-19T06:43:00.173-08:00Chòrd e rium gu mòr ris an artaigil. Bidh an t-uis...Chòrd e rium gu mòr ris an artaigil. Bidh an t-uisge a 'fàs mar ifrinn, agus tha mi an-còmhnaidh a' leughadh crathadh nuair a bhios mi ag òl macallan.<br />Bha mi a 'còrdadh rium gu mòr ris an eadar-mhìneachadh air ìsleachadh a' mhaoin agus a 'cheist mu bhith a' maoineachadh an fhearainn. Tha tòrr sgoil chigago, ach tha e gu math.<br />Iongantachdan beagglenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-46113341456246110182017-12-19T06:21:40.623-08:002017-12-19T06:21:40.623-08:00I too , find this reading very interesting .I too , find this reading very interesting .Kyrie I. Boston MSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-39178171363511204732017-12-19T06:20:32.440-08:002017-12-19T06:20:32.440-08:00I enjoy this post.
I enjoy this post.<br />Tim Duncan - S.Antonio TXnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-56219321599051067602017-12-19T05:56:07.176-08:002017-12-19T05:56:07.176-08:00big scum
if some are shorty toobig scum <br />if some are shorty tooCount Dukos Big onenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-2791077703454089832017-12-19T05:53:44.124-08:002017-12-19T05:53:44.124-08:00the traitors ... i mean
scum the traitors ... i mean <br />scum Count Dukos Big onenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-59642378739742193802017-12-19T04:14:03.054-08:002017-12-19T04:14:03.054-08:00Notes from the Present on archduke Piccolo comment...Notes from the Present on archduke Piccolo comments :<br /><br />Interesting. I have heard of the 11th century debasement of the coinage (with interesting effects as coins of disparate purity circulated in the markets for some time, with pre-debased coinage commanding a premium. It seems, however that there were other, possibly consequential, issues. For one thing, military stores were illegally being hocked off by officials supposed to be in charge of them. The Byzantine navy, I understand, was particularly badly affected, to the point of ineffectuality on the high seas.<br /><br />Present : Currency Stability in based on heavy debt from , odd markets , or central banks ... so is an illusion ... one day the bubble will burst ... if creditors want ... for now they engage in neo-colonial worth purchases ... and dazzling luxury buying foreign spree ...<br />military a joke ... and those still capable are few and got no saying in it <br />Lilliputiam armies ... and the big one army ...bog down ... as so many the challanges <br /><br />A good deal of trade through Constantinople was taken over by foreigners, notably Venetians and Genovese. This was a money making effort by Byzantine emperors that had short term benefits but with enervating long term effects on the economic and social health of the Empire.<br /><br />Present : The same now .Neo-imperialism from the manufacture World Honcho turn too a High Tech Copying Purchaser . The homies are now on crumbs , unless those traitors selling independence <br /><br />But I am inclined to think that what happened between 1071 and 1081 - the Turkish flooding the Anatolian peninsula - was due to depopulation, as land was drawn into the hands of fewer and fewer large landholders. The thematic system was run down partly in favour of the Tagmatic, though I'm inclined to infer that the Tagmatic army was Constantinople's response to the running down in equipment, skills and recruitment within the thematic small landholder class. Possibly this was due to the small landholders' reluctance to carry out military service, but it is equally likely that as lands gradually slipped out of the small military landholder class (I can think of several reasons for this). Their status would have declined - as they became dependents of the large landowners, or else many would have migrated to the cities. It would be interesting to discover the demographic shifts in the Byzantine populations from, say, 1000 through to 1118 (death of Alexius) and beyond.<br /><br />Present : Fields empty , Cities are full, migration pressure ,jobs scarce , i mean real jobs , elite pencil pushers rules , and union bosses too , massive taxes , social security heavy spending ... old people pensions ... no real wealth created now <br /><br />At any rate, if the Emperor saw fit to rifle the Imperial (Tagmatic) military budget, he might have assumed the themes could take up the slack, over-optimistically, in the event.<br /><br />Present : Military budget low , and they put defense in the hands of the one Big army left in this wretched lands ... and they vilifed even this one <br /><br /><br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Count Dukes Big onenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-463284147100358682017-12-19T03:38:56.903-08:002017-12-19T03:38:56.903-08:00Theres a piece in this blog , about manzikert ( i ...Theres a piece in this blog , about manzikert ( i think 2 post on it )<br />None got so far as this one , and it looks the battle as a major military blunder ( dividing forces and so ) ... and somehow with assumptions of treason from some of Romanos Diogenes rivals families in the army ...<br />The seljud got a hand off victory without any effort at all .<br />I reckon the west today is in bigger troubles than byzantium in those times .<br />Big time troubles ... <br />Debt,treason,no army,no will,no people,major west roman lookalike decline .<br />Gibbons nightmare.<br />And nobody cares .<br />The rascalls are takem the asylum .Count Dukos Big onenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-20272447205072866792017-12-19T03:09:01.874-08:002017-12-19T03:09:01.874-08:00Good piece .
Very enlighted one , and articulated....Good piece .<br />Very enlighted one , and articulated.<br />Economics, and political schemes , weaken the whole empire bulkwark .<br />Lesson from the past.<br />I enjoy that on rascals coming to power . It look my own country . The ones that are colluding with neo-colonialism , and imperialism , from dictators foreign powers , to kept their own selfish one , above people will , and independence .<br />Sell-outs .And traitors.Count Dukos Big onenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699820429313289113.post-37188065762705967012017-12-19T01:31:20.416-08:002017-12-19T01:31:20.416-08:00Interesting. I have heard of the 11th century de...Interesting. I have heard of the 11th century debasement of the coinage (with interesting effects as coins of disparate purity circulated in the markets for some time, with pre-debased coinage commanding a premium. It seems, however that there were other, possibly consequential, issues. For one thing, military stores were illegally being hocked off by officials supposed to be in charge of them. The Byzantine navy, I understand, was particularly badly affected, to the point of ineffectuality on the high seas.<br /><br />A good deal of trade through Constantinople was taken over by foreigners, notably Venetians and Genovese. This was a money making effort by Byzantine emperors that had short term benefits but with enervating long term effects on the economic and social health of the Empire.<br /><br />But I am inclined to think that what happened between 1071 and 1081 - the Turkish flooding the Anatolian peninsula - was due to depopulation, as land was drawn into the hands of fewer and fewer large landholders. The thematic system was run down partly in favour of the Tagmatic, though I'm inclined to infer that the Tagmatic army was Constantinople's response to the running down in equipment, skills and recruitment within the thematic small landholder class. Possibly this was due to the small landholders' reluctance to carry out military service, but it is equally likely that as lands gradually slipped out of the small military landholder class (I can think of several reasons for this). Their status would have declined - as they became dependents of the large landowners, or else many would have migrated to the cities. It would be interesting to discover the demographic shifts in the Byzantine populations from, say, 1000 through to 1118 (death of Alexius) and beyond.<br /><br />At any rate, if the Emperor saw fit to rifle the Imperial (Tagmatic) military budget, he might have assumed the themes could take up the slack, over-optimistically, in the event.<br /><br />It seems this paper goes into these matters in a deal more detail than I've seen elsewhere.Archduke Piccolohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15533325665451889661noreply@blogger.com