Byzantine Military Rhetoric In The Ninth Century

Author : Georgios Theotokis,Dimitrios Sidiropoulos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000389999

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Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century by Georgios Theotokis,Dimitrios Sidiropoulos Pdf

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.

Author : Georgios Theotokis,Dimitrios Sidiropoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000390025

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Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century by Georgios Theotokis,Dimitrios Sidiropoulos Pdf

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.

Author : Walter Emil Kaegi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : UCAL:B3474893

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Byzantine Military Unrest, 471-843 by Walter Emil Kaegi Pdf

Author : John Haldon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351953740

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Byzantine Warfare by John Haldon Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004696433

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Military Literature in the Medieval Roman World and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

What do the mysterious Roman author Vegetius, the Byzantine emperor Leo VI, and the Chinese general Li Jing all have in common? They are three of the dozens of authors across the medieval Mediterranean world and beyond who wrote works of military literature, sometimes called military handbooks, manuals, or treatises. This book brings together a multidisciplinary international team of scholars who present cutting edge essays on diverse aspects of medieval military literature. While some chapters offer novel approaches to familiar authors like Vegetius, some present research on under-valued topics like Byzantine military illustrations, and others provide holistic studies on subjects like early modern treatises, they all move the discussion of medieval military literature forward. Contributors are Michael B. Charles, Georgios Chatzelis, Pierre Cosme, Maxime Emion, Immacolata Eramo, Michael Fulton, David Graff, John Haldon, Catherine Hof, John Hosler, Savvas Kyriakidis, Łukasz Różycki, Katharina Schoneveld, Georgios Theotokis, Conor Whately, Michael Whitby, and Nadya Williams.

Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351550840

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Rhetoric in Byzantium by Elizabeth Jeffreys Pdf

'Rhetoric in Byzantium' explores the ways in which rhetoric functioned in Byzantine society - as a tool for the effective communication of ideas and ideologies, but at times also a barrier that inhibited the expression of real feelings and everyday realities, and imposed a burden of decoding on outsiders. After an introduction on the practical and textual background to Byzantine rhetoric, the essays are grouped in five sections. The first two deal with the basis of rhetoric in Byzantium and its public uses, principally in imperial and ecclesiastical ceremonial. The next sections look at how rhetoric affects the definition of literature in a Byzantine context and the aesthetic to be used in approaching Byzantine literature, with reference to current critical approaches, and specifically at the role of rhetoric in the writing of history - does it only obscure the facts, or does the rhetorical process itself provide information at other levels? The final essays examine the interaction of the written word and pictorial representation and the question of whether real connections between rhetorical training and artistic production can be demonstrated.

Author : John Haldon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135364373

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Warfare, State And Society In The Byzantine World 560-1204 by John Haldon Pdf

Warfare, State and Society in the Byznatine World is the first comprehensive study of the warfare and the Byzantine World from the sixth to the twelfth century. The book examines Byzantine attitudes to warfare, the effects of war on society and culture, and the relations between the soldiers, their leaders and society. The communications, logistics, resources and manpower capabilities of the Byzantine Empire are explored to set warfare in its geographical as well as historical context. In addition to the strategic and tactical evolution of the army, this book analyses the army in campaign and in battle, and its attitudes to violence in the context of the Byzantine Orthodox Church.

Author : Łukasz Różycki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004462557

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Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity: A Study of Fear and Motivation in Roman Military Treatises by Łukasz Różycki Pdf

Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity is the first work to offer a comprehensive analysis of morale and fear. Różycki examines Roman military treatises to illustrate the methods of manipulating the human psyche.

Author : Savvas Kyriakidis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004206670

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Warfare in Late Byzantium, 1204-1453 by Savvas Kyriakidis Pdf

Examining a wide body of sources this book offers a comprehensive analysis of late Byzantine attitudes to warfare and places late Byzantine military ethos, thought and practice in the wider geographical, cultural and historical context.

Author : Georgios Kardaras
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004382268

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Byzantium and the Avars, 6th-9th Century AD by Georgios Kardaras Pdf

In this book Georgios Kardaras offers a global view of the political and cultural contact between the Byzantine Empire and the Avar Khaganate, emphasizing in their reconstruction after 626 and the definition of the possible channels of communication.

Author : Meredith L. D. Riedel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107053076

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Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Christian Identity by Meredith L. D. Riedel Pdf

Analyses the ideological writings of a scholarly and unusual Byzantine emperor dedicated to distinctively Orthodox Christian principles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317186403

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A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum by Anonim Pdf

The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century CE, a period when the Byzantine empire enjoyed a large measure of success in its wars against its traditional enemy, the Arabs. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies, know-how, and tactics, the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations, raids, sieges, ambushes, surprise attacks, the treatment of prisoners of war and defectors, distribution of booty, punishment of military offences, how to mount effective espionage, and how to send and receive envoys. There is even advice on the personal qualities required by generals, on how to neutralize enemy horses, and on how to protect the troops against poisoned food. The work culminates in an account of the stratagems employed by great Greek and Roman military commanders of the past. While, like so much of Byzantine literature, the Sylloge often simply reproduces material found in earlier texts, it also preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. It is the first Byzantine source to record the reappearance of a specialized heavy cavalry (the kataphraktoi) and of a specialized infantry (the menavlatoi) used to repel the attacks of the opposing heavy cavalry. There is also a great deal of information on new infantry and cavalry formations and on the new tactics that required them. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English. It is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work and by footnotes which explain obscure references and identify the author’s classical and Byzantine sources. An introduction places the work in its historical and literary context and considers some of the questions that have remained unanswered over the centuries, such as its authorship and the date of its composition.

Author : Georgios Theotokis,Marek Meško
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429574771

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War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium by Georgios Theotokis,Marek Meško Pdf

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 : Walter Emil Kaegi
Publisher : Holy Cross Orthodox Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024972948

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Some Thoughts on Byzantine Military Strategy by Walter Emil Kaegi Pdf