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This chapter discusses the views on warfare held by Byzantine authors during a turbulent period of endless wars from 1204-1453. Theodore Metochites and others viewed military conflict as inevitable given the fragmented political situation. While diplomacy was attempted, writers like Metochites felt it could not ensure peace with the Turkic states. Under the Laskarid dynasty in Nicaea, an ideology of militarism and reconquest developed in response to the Crusader capture of Constantinople in 1204. Warfare to
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- borja
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- EN