Maurices Strategikon

Author : Maurice (Emperor of the East)
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812217728
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maurice's Strategikon written by Maurice (Emperor of the East) and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Meredith L. D. Riedel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107053072
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity written by Meredith L. D. Riedel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the ideological writings of a scholarly and unusual Byzantine emperor dedicated to distinctively Orthodox Christian principles.

Author : Hugh Elton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108686273
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity written by Hugh Elton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis of the third century, he covers the rise of Christianity, the key Church Councils, the fall of the West to the Barbarians, the Justinianic reconquest, and concludes with the twin wars against Persians and Arabs in the seventh century AD. Elton isolates two major themes that emerge in this period. He notes that a new form of decision-making was created, whereby committees debated civil, military, and religious matters before the emperor, who was the final arbiter. Elton also highlights the evolution of the relationship between aristocrats and the Empire, and provides new insights into the mechanics of administering the Empire, as well as frontier and military policies. Supported by primary documents and anecdotes, The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity is designed for use in undergraduate courses on late antiquity and early medieval history.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363734
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, ca. 300-1204 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Byzantine Culture of War offers a critical approach to the study of military organisation and warfare as fundamental aspects of the East Roman society and culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Author : Georgios Theotokis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429576889
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium written by Georgios Theotokis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Haldon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351953745
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Warfare written by John Haldon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare was an integral part of the operations of the medieval eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire, both in its organization, as well as in social thinking and political ideology. This volume presents a selection of articles dealing with key aspects of Byzantine attitudes to war and violence, with military administration and organization at tactical and strategic levels, weapons and armaments and war-making itself; discussions which make an important contribution to answering the questions of how and why the empire survived as long as it did.

Author : Norman Tobias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Military Encyclopedia: A-I Skyraider-Acre, Siege of, 1799 written by Norman Tobias and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leo VI (Emperor of the East)
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
ISBN 13 : 9780884023944
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taktika of Leo VI written by Leo VI (Emperor of the East) and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern critical edition of the complete text of the 'Takita', including a facing English translation, explanatory notes, and extensive indexes.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AB Bookman's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nicholas Thomas
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541620054
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyagers written by Nicholas Thomas and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account. One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street Journal The islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit the Pacific were astounded and perplexed to find populations thriving thousands of miles from continents. Who were these people? From where did they come? And how were they able to reach islands dispersed over such vast tracts of ocean? In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between Asia and the Americas from late prehistory onward. Drawing on the latest research, including insights gained from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology, Thomas provides a dazzling account of these long-distance migrations, the seagoing technologies that enabled them, and the societies they left in their wake.