Maurice's Strategikon

Author: Maurice (Emperor of the East)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812217728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
As a veteran campaigner, the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582-602) compiled a unique and influential handbook intended for the field commander. In this first complete English translation, the Strategikon is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine history but for the general history of the art of war. Describing in detail weaponry and armor, daily life on the march or in camp, clothing, food, medical care, military law, and titles of the Byzantine army of the seventh century, the Strategikon offers insights into the Byzantine military ethos. In language contemporary, down-to-earth, and practical, the text also provides important data for the historian, and even the ethnologist, including eyewitness accounts of the Persians, Slavs, Lombards, and Avars at the frontier of the Empire.

The Taktika of Leo VI

Author: Leo VI (Emperor of the East)
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN: 9780884023944
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A modern critical edition of the complete text of the 'Takita', including a facing English translation, explanatory notes, and extensive indexes.

De RE MILITARI by VEGETIUS

Author: Flavius Vegetius
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781697849073
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
De Re Militari by Vegetius is the famous strategy book written in times of the Roman Empire. It explains how they organized their armies, battles, sieges, and war strategies. This is the complete official edition and it contains the 4th part (how to perform sieges, city defenses, and naval warfare) which is not included in commonly available basic editions. De Re Militari is essential to understand European strategy and war due to the fact that, besides describing the military might of Rome in practical terms, it was also used by generals and rulers in the next centuries and the Middle Ages to organize European armies, conduct sieges, reinforce castles, train soldiers, and conquer enemy nations. So much so that generals would be judged and measured in warfare skills by their knowledge and understanding of Vegetius.

Three Byzantine Military Treatises

Author: George T. Dennis
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Threatened on all sides by relentless enemies for a thousand years, the Byzantines needed ready armies and secure borders. To this end, experienced commanders compiled practical handbooks of military strategy. Three such manuals are presented here. The Anonymous Byzantine Treatise on Strategy was written by a retired combat engineer around the middle of the sixth century, while Skirmishing and Campaign Organization and Tactics date from the late tenth century and concern warfare in the mountains along the Syrian frontier and campaigns in the rugged terrain of the Balkans. These treatises provide information not only on tactics and weaponry but also on the motivations of the men who risked their lives to defend the empire.

War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium

Author: Georgios Theotokis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429574770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium presents new insights and critical approaches to warfare between the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours during the eleventh century. Modern historians have identified the eleventh century as a landmark era in Byzantine history. This was a period of invasions, political tumult, financial crisis and social disruption, but it was also a time of cultural and intellectual innovation and achievement. Despite this, the subject of warfare during this period remains underexplored. Addressing an important gap in the historiography of Byzantium, the volume argues that the eleventh century was a period of important geo-political change, when the Byzantine Empire was attacked on all sides, and its frontiers were breached. This book is valuable reading for scholars and students interested in Byzantium history and military history.

Sammlung

Author: Manuel II Palaeologus (Emperor of the East)
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN:
Category : Byzantine Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description

Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity

Author: Meredith L. D. Riedel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108650058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
The Byzantine emperor Leo VI (886–912), was not a general or even a soldier, like his predecessors, but a scholar, and it was the religious education he gained under the tutelage of the patriarch Photios that was to distinguish him as an unusual ruler. This book analyses Leo's literary output, focusing on his deployment of ideological principles and religious obligations to distinguish the characteristics of the Christian oikoumene from the Islamic caliphate, primarily in his military manual known as the Taktika. It also examines in depth his 113 legislative Novels, with particular attention to their theological prolegomena, showing how the emperor's religious sensibilities find expression in his reshaping of the legal code to bring it into closer accord with Byzantine canon law. Meredith L. D. Riedel argues that the impact of his religious faith transformed Byzantine cultural identity and influenced his successors, establishing the Macedonian dynasty as a 'golden age' in Byzantium.

The Roman Army, 31 BC-AD 337

Author: Brian Campbell
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415071734
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
The Roman army was an integral part of the society and life of the Empire and exemplifies many aspects of Roman government. This sourcebook presents material which illustrates the life of the army in the field and in the community.

The Byzantine Wars

Author: John Haldon
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
By the middle of the sixth century the Byzantine emperor ruled a mighty empire that straddled Europe, Asia and North Africa. Within 100 years, this powerful empire had been cut in half. Two centuries later the Byzantine empire was once again a power to be reckoned with, and soon recovered its position as the paramount East Mediterranean and Balkan power, whose fabulous wealth attracted Viking mercenaries and central Asian nomad warriors to its armies, whose very appearance on the field of battle was sometimes enough to bring enemies to terms. No book has ever attempted a survey of Byzantine wars, and few accounts of Byzantine battles have ever been translated into a modern language. This book will provide essential support for those interested in Byzantine history in general as well as a useful corrective to the more usual highly romanticised views of Byzantine civilisation.

Fourteen Byzantine Rulers

Author: Michael Psellus
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141904550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.