<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2e2a7a37-ef12-403c-ae41-cf720ba584a0/271DDACE-D939-463F-A892-E97A6CF722E2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://zia.blogspot.com/2008/09/12-byzantine-rulers-history-of.html" href="http://zia.blogspot.com/2008/09/12-byzantine-rulers-history-of.html" style="font-size: 11px;">zia.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zia.blogspot.com/2008/09/12-byzantine-rulers-history-of.html"><DIV>My <A href="http://zia.blogspot.com/2008/02/collapse-of-roman-republic.html">obsession with ancient Roman history</A> is still alive and kicking! I simply can't get enough of it... I have bought couple of more books on the subject, including <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Roman-Empire-History-Barbarians/dp/0195159543">The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History</A>, a re-visit to one of History's most complex enigma.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zia.blogspot.com/2008/09/12-byzantine-rulers-history-of.html"><DIV>Where (the Western) Roman Empire ends, there is another millenium of the Byzanthine Empire for me to get my teeth into!</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://zia.blogspot.com/2008/09/12-byzantine-rulers-history-of.html"><DIV>I discovered <A href="http://www.anders.com/lectures/lars_brownworth/12_byzantine_rulers/">these series of free lectures</A> by accident while browsing iTunes. Lars Brownworth's narrative is simply great, well structured and and a joy to listen to.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/271DDACE-D939-463F-A892-E97A6CF722E2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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