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Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century is the first
English translation of the ninth-century Anonymi Byzantini
Rhetorica Militaris. This influential text offers a valuable
insight into the warrior ethic of the period, the role of religion
in the justification of war, and the view of other military
cultures by the Byzantine elite. It also played a crucial role in
the compilation of the tenth-century Taktika and Constantine VII's
harangues during a period of intense military activity for the
Byzantine Empire on its eastern borders. Including a detailed
commentary and critical introduction to the author and the
structure of the text, this book will appeal to all those
interested in Byzantine political ideology and military history.
Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century is the first
English translation of the ninth-century Anonymi Byzantini
Rhetorica Militaris. This influential text offers a valuable
insight into the warrior ethic of the period, the role of religion
in the justification of war, and the view of other military
cultures by the Byzantine elite. It also played a crucial role in
the compilation of the tenth-century Taktika and Constantine VII's
harangues during a period of intense military activity for the
Byzantine Empire on its eastern borders. Including a detailed
commentary and critical introduction to the author and the
structure of the text, this book will appeal to all those
interested in Byzantine political ideology and military history.
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.
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.
This book examines the strategies and military tactics of the
Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in
Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century. This period of conflict is
difficult to define: it was too inactive to be called a 'war' but
too active to be called a 'cold war'. Nevertheless, it was a 'war',
even if it lacked the numerous pitched battles or protracted sieges
that defined other periods or other operational theatres of war.
This study examines the way the Byzantines innovated and adapted
their strategies and tactics to those of their enemies in the East,
giving a rich picture of tenth-century Byzantine warfare.
First full-length analysis of Norman military organisation in the
Balkans: events, strategy, and tactics. The Norman expansion in
eleventh-century Europe was a movement of enormous historical
importance, which saw men and women from the duchy of Normandy
settling in England, Italy, Sicily and the Middle East. The Norman
establishmentin the South is particularly interesting, because it
represents the story of a few hundred mercenaries who managed to
establish a principality in the Mediterranean that would later
develop in to the Kingdom of Sicily. In thisbook the author
examines the clash of two different "military cultures" - the
Normans and the Byzantines - in one theatre of war - the Balkans.
It is the first study to date of the military organization of the
Norman and Byzantine states in the Mediterranean, and of their
overall strategies and their military tactics in the battlefield.
It is also the first to examine the way in which each military
culture reacted and adapted to the strategies and tacticsof its
enemies in Italy and the Balkans. The author closely follows the
campaigns conducted by the Normans in the Byzantine provinces of
Illyria and Macedonia and their battles against Imperial armies
commanded by the Byzantine Emperor. He also examines the ways in
which the Italian-Norman and Byzantine military systems differed,
and their relative efficiencies. Dr Georgios Theotokis is Assistant
Professor of European History at Fatih University, Istanbul.
First full-length analysis of Norman military organisation in the
Balkans: events, strategy, and tactics. The Norman expansion in
eleventh-century Europe was a movement of enormous historical
importance, which saw men and women from the duchy of Normandy
settling in England, Italy, Sicily and the Middle East. The Norman
establishmentin the South is particularly interesting, because it
represents the story of a few hundred mercenaries who managed to
establish a principality in the Mediterranean that would later
develop in to the Kingdom of Sicily. In thisbook the author
examines the clash of two different "military cultures" - the
Normans and the Byzantines - in one theatre of war - the Balkans.
It is the first study to date of the military organization of the
Norman and Byzantine states in the Mediterranean, and of their
overall strategies and their military tactics in the battlefield.
It is also the first to examine the way in which each military
culture reacted and adapted to the strategies and tacticsof its
enemies in Italy and the Balkans. The author closely follows the
campaigns conducted by the Normans in the Byzantine provinces of
Illyria and Macedonia and their battles against Imperial armies
commanded by the Byzantine Emperor. He also examines the ways in
which the Italian-Norman and Byzantine military systems differed,
and their relative efficiencies. Dr GEORGIOS THEOTOKIS is Assistant
Professor of European History at Fatih University, Istanbul.
A collection which highlights "the range and richness of
scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and
cultures of conflict that characterize the field". History 95
[2010] The comprehensive breadth and scope of the Journal are to
the fore in this issue, which ranges widely both geographically and
chronologically. The subjects of analysis are equally diverse, with
three contributions dealing with theCrusades, four with matters
related to the Hundred Years War, two with high-medieval Italy, one
with the Alans in the Byzantine-Catalan conflict of the early
fourteenth century, and one with the wars of the Duke of Cephalonia
inWestern Greece and Albania at the turn of the fifteenth century.
Topics include military careers, tactics and strategy, the
organization of urban defenses, close analysis of chronicle
sources, and cultural approaches to the acceptance of gunpowder
artillery and the prevalence of military "games" in Italian cities.
Contributors: T.S. Asbridge, A. Compton Reeves, Kelly DeVries,
Michael Ehrlich, Scott Jessee, Donald Kagay, Savvas Kyriakidis,
Randall Moffett, Aldo A. Settia, Charles D. Stanton, Georgios
Theotokis, L.J. Andrew Villalon, Anatoly Isaenko.
Warfare has been central to European history for millennia; Twenty
Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military
and equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle
Ages. Its fundamental aim is to stimulate the reader's interest in
the importance of pitched battles in war, and to explain the
geo-political gravity of twenty of them from the Battle of Frigidus
in AD394 to the Battle of Varna in 1444, taking in such key battles
as Hastings in 1066 and Bouvines in 1214.
Analyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the
Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The kingdom of
Sicily plays a huge part in the history of the Norman people; their
conquest brought in a new era of invasion, interaction and
integration in the Mediterranean, However, much previous
scholarship has tended to concentrate on their activities in
England and the Holy Land. This volume aims to redress the balance
by focusing on the Hautevilles, their successors and their
followers. It considers the operational, tactical, technical and
logistical aspects of the conduct of war in the South throughout
the eleventh and twelfth centuries, looking also at its impact on
Italian and Sicilian multi-cultural society. Topics include the
narratives of the Norman expansion, exchanges and diffusion between
the "military cultures" of the Normans and the peoples they
encountered in the South, and their varied policies of conquest,
consolidation and expansion in the different operational theatres
of land and sea.
This book examines the strategies and military tactics of the
Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in
Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century. This period of conflict is
difficult to define: it was too inactive to be called a 'war' but
too active to be called a 'cold war'. Nevertheless, it was a 'war',
even if it lacked the numerous pitched battles or protracted sieges
that defined other periods or other operational theatres of war.
This study examines the way the Byzantines innovated and adapted
their strategies and tactics to those of their enemies in the East,
giving a rich picture of tenth-century Byzantine warfare.
Bohemond of Taranto, Lord of Antioch, unofficial leader of the
First Crusade, was a man of boundless ambition and inexhaustible
energy - he was, in the words of Romuald of Salerno, 'always
seeking the impossible'. While he failed in his quest to secure the
Byzantine throne, he succeeded in founding the most enduring of all
the crusader states. Yet few substantial accounts of the life of
this remarkable warrior have been written and none have been
published in English for over a century - and that is why this
absorbing new study by Georgios Theotokis is of such value. He
concentrates on Bohemond as a soldier and commander, covering his
contribution to the crusades but focusing in particular on his
military achievements in Italy, Sicily, the Balkans and Anatolia.
Since medieval commanders generally receive little credit for their
strategic understanding, he examines Bohemond's war-plans in his
many campaigns, describes how he adapted his battle-tactics when
facing different opponents and considers whether his approach to
waging war was typical of the Norman commanders of his time.
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