Byzantine Fortifications

Author : Nikos D. Kontogiannis
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526710277

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Byzantine Fortifications by Nikos D. Kontogiannis Pdf

This wide-ranging study examines the Byzantine Empire’s network of military fortifications from the Aegean to Asia Minor and Africa. The Byzantine empire was one of the most powerful forces in the Mediterranean and Near East for over a thousand years. Strong military organization, anchored by widespread fortifications, was essential for its defense—yet this aspect of its history is often neglected. Historian Nikos Kontogiannis corrects this oversight with this ambitious account of Byzantine fortifications, detailing their construction and development as well as their role in times of war. Byzantine Fortifications combines the results of decades of wide-ranging archaeological work with an account of the armies, weapons, tactics and defensive strategies of the empire throughout its long history. Fortifications built in every region of the empire are covered, from those in Mesopotamia, Syria, and Africa, to those in Asia Minor, the Aegean and the Balkan peninsula.

Author : Clive Foss,David Winfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : UVA:X001282906

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Byzantine Fortifications by Clive Foss,David Winfield Pdf

Author : Anna Leone
Publisher : Edipuglia srl
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788872284988

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Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest by Anna Leone Pdf

"This book examines the complex transition of North Africa from the Late Roman period to the Arab conquest, focusing on three provinces: Zeugitana, Byzacena and Tripolitana. In particular, it considers the continuity and transformation of towns, as a result of economic, political and social changes. The period sees the wide diffusion of Christianity, the imposition of Vandal rule and Arianism, the presence of a new Empire and the Arab/Muslim takeover. It is also a period of archaeological and material transition: physically towns changed and classical structures, in particular, decayed and were reused. The evidence considered here encompasses a wide range of material, including publications from 1800 (Italian and French colonial excavations) to modern times. These data form the basis for a detailed review of archaeological evidence in this geographical area and for the analysis of the processes of evolution that characterised North African cities"--

Author : Mark C. Bartusis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216202

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The Late Byzantine Army by Mark C. Bartusis Pdf

The late Byzantine period was a time characterized by both civil strife and foreign invasion, framed by two cataclysmic events: the fall of Constantinople to the western Europeans in 1204 and again to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Mark C. Bartusis here opens an extraordinary window on the Byzantine Empire during its last centuries by providing the first comprehensive treatment of the dying empire's military. Although the Byzantine army was highly visible, it was increasingly ineffective in preventing the incursion of western European crusaders into the Aegean, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the slow decline and eventual fall of the thousand-year Byzantine Empire. Using all the available Greek, western European, Slavic, and Turkish sources, Bartusis describes the evolution of the army both as an institution and as an instrument of imperial policy. He considers the army's size, organization, administration, and the varieties of soldiers, and he examines Byzantine feudalism and the army's impact on society and the economy. In its extensive use of soldier companies composed of foreign mercenaries, the Byzantine army had many parallels with those of western Europe; in the final analysis, Bartusis contends, the death of Byzantium was attributable more to a shrinking fiscal base than to any lack of creative military thinking on the part of its leaders.

Author : Luke Lavan,Enrico Zanini,Alexander Constantine Sarantis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004165496

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Technology in Transition by Luke Lavan,Enrico Zanini,Alexander Constantine Sarantis Pdf

This book is the first general work to be published on technology in Late Antiquity. It seeks to survey aspects of the technology of the period and to respond to questions about technological continuity, stagnation and decline. The book opens with a comprehensive bibliographic essay that provides an overview of relevant literature. The main section then explores technologies in agriculture, production (metal, ceramics and glass), engineering and building. Papers draw on both archaeological and textual sources, and on analogies with medieval and early modern technologies. Reference is made not only to the periods which preceded it, but to the transition to the Early Middle Ages and to the technological heritage of Late Antiquity to the Islamic world. Several papers focus on Italy, whilst others consider North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Near-East.

Author : Dweezil Vandekerckhove
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004417410

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Medieval Fortifications in Cilicia by Dweezil Vandekerckhove Pdf

In Medieval Fortifications in Cilicia Dweezil Vandekerckhove offers an account of the fortifications in the Armenian Kingdom (1198-1375). Through the examination of known and newly identified castles, this work increases the number of sites associated with the Armenians.

Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521834452

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Byzantine Style, Religion and Civilization by Elizabeth Jeffreys Pdf

A volume of cutting-edge essays written in honour of renowned Byzantinist Sir Steven Runciman.

Author : Paul Stephenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136727870

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The Byzantine World by Paul Stephenson Pdf

The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be afforded countless new vistas. Each chapter offers an innovative approach to a well-known topic or a diversion from a well-trodden path. Readers will be introduced to Byzantine women and children, men and eunuchs, emperors, patriarchs, aristocrats and slaves. They will explore churches and fortifications, monasteries and palaces, from Constantinople to Cyprus and Syria in the east, and to Apulia and Venice in the west. Secular and sacred art, profane and spiritual literature will be revealed to the reader, who will be encouraged to read, see, smell and touch. The worlds of Byzantine ceremonial and sanctity, liturgy and letters, Orthodoxy and heresy will be explored, by both leading and innovative international scholars. Ultimately, readers will find insights into the emergence of modern Byzantine studies and of popular Byzantine history that are informative, novel and unexpected, and that provide a thorough understanding of both.

Author : Myrto Veikou
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004221512

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Byzantine Epirus by Myrto Veikou Pdf

This text draws on five years of archaeological and topographical fieldwork in order to attempt a re-reading of Byzantine texts in accordance with recent perceptions of the historicity of space.

Author : Małgorzata Biernacka-Lubańska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Bulgaria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039350868

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The Roman and Early-Byzantine Fortifications of Lower Moesia and Northern Thrace by Małgorzata Biernacka-Lubańska Pdf

Author : Dennis P. Hupchick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319562063

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The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony by Dennis P. Hupchick Pdf

This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era. Over a span of two centuries, from the early ninth through the early eleventh, and under the leadership of the Bulgarian rulers Krum, Simeon I, and Samuil, those conflicts evolved from simple confrontations for territorial possession into a life-or-death struggle for imperial precedence within the Orthodox world then emerging in Eastern Europe—a struggle that the Bulgarians ultimately lost. The primary focus is on Bulgaria, rather than Byzantium, and an effort is made to provide a historically reliable chronology of the assorted campaigns. The various belligerents’ military organizations, defensive technologies, armaments, and tactics are surveyed in an introduction to the main narrative. A prelude chapter sets the stage for the hegemonic conflict, which was divided into three distinct phases by interludes of relative peace between the contending parties, during which Bulgaria’s domestic, foreign, and cultural developments shaped the nature and conduct of the fighting in each successive phase.

Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys,John F. Haldon,Robin Cormack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199252466

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The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies by Elizabeth Jeffreys,John F. Haldon,Robin Cormack Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies presents discussions by leading experts on all significant aspects of this diverse and fast-growing field. Byzantine Studies deals with the history and culture of the Byzantine Empire, the eastern half of the Late Roman Empire, from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Its centre was the city formerly known as Byzantium, refounded as Constantinople in 324 CE, the present-day Istanbul. Under its emperors, patriarchs, and all-pervasive bureaucracy Byzantium developed a distinctive society: Greek in language, Roman in legal system, and Christian in religion. Byzantium's impact in the European Middle Ages is hard to over-estimate, as a bulwark against invaders, as a meeting-point for trade from Asia and the Mediterranean, as a guardian of the classical literary and artistic heritage, and as a creator of its own magnificent artistic style.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004363731

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A Companion to the Byzantine Culture of War, ca. 300-1204 by Anonim Pdf

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 : Rune Frederiksen,Mike Schnelle,Silke Muth,Peter Schneider
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785701344

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Focus on Fortifications by Rune Frederiksen,Mike Schnelle,Silke Muth,Peter Schneider Pdf

With a collection of 57 articles in English, French and German, presenting the most recent research on ancient fortifications, this book is the most substantial publication ever to have issued on the topic for many years. While fortifications of the ancient cultures of the middle east and ancient Greek and Roman worlds were noticed by travelers and scholars from the very beginning of research on antiquity from the late 18th century onwards, the architectural, economic, logistical, political, urban and other social aspects of fortifications have been somewhat overlooked and underestimated by scholarship in the 20th century. The book presents the research of a new generation of scholars who have been analyzing those aspects of fortifications, many of them with years of experience in fieldwork on city walls. Much new evidence and a fresh look at this important category of built structure is now made available, and the publication will be of interest not only to the field of ancient architecture, but also to other sub-disciplines of archaeology and ancient history. The papers were presented at a conference in Athens in December 2012, and they all present material and discuss topics under seven headings that represent the most central themes in the study of fortification in antiquity: the origins of fortification, physical surroundings and building technique, function and semantics, historical context, the fortification of regions and regionally confined phenomena, the fortifications of Athens and new field research. The book is Volume 2 in the new series Fokus Fortifikation Studies, created by the German based international research network Fokus Fortifikation. The topics included have been identified by the network over many previous conferences and workshops as being the most important and as needing research and discussion beyond the network members. Volume 1 in the series, Ancient Fortifications: a compendium of theory and practice (Oxbow Books) will also appear in 2015 and together the two volumes bring the field of fortification studies up-to-date and will be an essential resource for many years to come.

Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1843830663

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Castles of God by Peter Harrison Pdf

Throughout history, great faiths have been subjected to persecution and attack from beyond the wall - literally walls, in Peter Harrison's remarkable book of the great monastery-fortresses, and church-fortresses, of the world.