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<p>[QUOTE="OutsiderSubtype, post: 6789101, member: 112457"]Okay, this is not a serious or scholarly work but it is one of the first works of "what ifs" on the great Sasanian - Byzantine conflict I read. It is part of what got me interested in this period of history and it was written at a time where interest in the Byzantine Empire was nowhere near what it is today.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_of_Byzantium" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_of_Byzantium" rel="nofollow">Agent of Byzantium</a> is a collection of short stories set in a world where the Islamic conquest does not happen and the Byzantine and Sasanian empires continue their mostly cold, sometimes hot war into the early modern period. Most of the stories have to do with how the empires develop or react to one of the great inventions of that period (such as the printing press).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272011[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Khosrau II:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272017[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="OutsiderSubtype, post: 6789101, member: 112457"]Okay, this is not a serious or scholarly work but it is one of the first works of "what ifs" on the great Sasanian - Byzantine conflict I read. It is part of what got me interested in this period of history and it was written at a time where interest in the Byzantine Empire was nowhere near what it is today. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_of_Byzantium']Agent of Byzantium[/URL] is a collection of short stories set in a world where the Islamic conquest does not happen and the Byzantine and Sasanian empires continue their mostly cold, sometimes hot war into the early modern period. Most of the stories have to do with how the empires develop or react to one of the great inventions of that period (such as the printing press). [ATTACH=full]1272011[/ATTACH] Here is my Khosrau II: [ATTACH=full]1272017[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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