Eternal Victory
Subtitle: Triumphal Rulership in Late Antiquity, Byzantium and the Early Medieval West (Past and Present Publications)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 27, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780521261807
Subjects: World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; History; Sociology; Europe; Customs & Traditions; History / Europe / General; Europe - General; Byzantine Empire; Processions; Rites and ceremonies; Triumph
First sentence: Collective manifestations of joy and relief at the successful conclusion of a military engagement occur throughout human society and throughout history, from the earliest times down to our own V-E and V-J Days of recent memory.