06-15-2009, 04:21 PM
hi Matt,
Quote:I know Stuart Laycock has done a lot of work to try and substantiate this theory and it's all well written stuff but I'm not sold on his idea of trying to equate Britannia in the 5th century with the Balkans in the 20th.Well, personally I don't think that Stuart is wrong with that Balkans image (I like the model of the Soviet Union and their Asian republics better), but he did not compare it close enough: Yugoslavia did settle scores of their fathers and grandfathers, not of grudges and sentiments from pre-Turkish Illyria. Which is what he proposes happened in Britain, that they fell back on 350-year old models which supposedly were held 'in limbo' during the Roman period. And that I still cannot seee any evidence for. But I'm awaiting his latest book. :wink:
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)