PAUL
STEPHENSON
Theophanes Confessor
Introduction to follow.
The following excerpt is from The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Byzantine and Near Eastern History AD 284-813, translated by Cyril Mango and Roger Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), which has been reproduced with permission at the impressive medieval military history site De Re Militari.
The campaigns of Herakleios, 620-6
Paul Stephenson, November 2006