War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.)
War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.)

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-08-19

Total Pages: 1119

ISBN-13: 9004252584

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This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war and Italy.

War in Late Antiquity
War in Late Antiquity

Author: A. D. Lee

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-02-09

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 0470766239

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The first book to focus on the social impact of warfare and theRoman army in Late Antiquity. Explores the implications of war and the army in a broad rangeof areas encompassing politics, the economy, and social life Pays particular attention to the experience of war from theperspective of non-combatants Investigates the religious dimension of military life and therole of the army in implementing religious policy Approaches familiar subjects from new perspectives, offeringnovel insights into the many facets of late Roman history

Warfare in the Roman World
Warfare in the Roman World

Author: A. D. Lee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1108916007

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Warfare was a recurrent phenomenon of fundamental importance throughout Roman history. Its scale and form varied across time and place, but it had wide-ranging impacts on politics, society and economy. This book focuses on important themes in the interplay between warfare and these broader contexts, including attitudes to war and peace, the values associated with military service, the role of material resources, military mutiny and civil war, and social and cultural aspects of the military. It also examines experiences of warfare, focusing on approaches to Roman battle and the impact of war on civilians. Importantly and distinctively, these different themes are traced across a millennium of Roman history from the Republic through to the end of Late Antiquity in the early seventh century, with a view to highlighting important continuities and changes across Roman history, and alerting readers to valuable but often less familiar material from the empire's final centuries.

The Roman Art of War in Late Antiquity: The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice
The Roman Art of War in Late Antiquity: The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice

Author: Philip R. Rance

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1351620126

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The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice, written towards the end of the 6th century, is a key text in the history of late Roman and Byzantine warfare. It stands midway between the classical genre of tactica, dating back to the 4th century BC, and the subsequent Byzantine military corpus, which it profoundly influenced. Of unprecedented size and scope, the Strategikon discusses every aspect of contemporary land warfare, and includes ethnographic excursuses on the late Roman Empire’s varied enemies. It is a work of outstanding utility, whose author was able to combine, in a deliberately vernacular Greek, the precepts of earlier military texts with a practical military knowledge. Volume I is a new English translation and detailed commentary on the work, incorporating the vast amount of research recently conducted on this period. Volume II provides studies on the text’s structure, composition, language, sources and literary antecedents.

The Last Great War of Antiquity
The Last Great War of Antiquity

Author: James Howard-Johnston

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 019883019X

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The last great war of antiquity was fought on an unprecedented scale along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier. James Howard-Johnston pieces together the fragmentary evidence of this period to form, for the first time, a coherent story of the dramatic events, key players, and vast lands over which the conflict spread.

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

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-09-04

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9004363734

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This collection of essays on the Byzantine culture of war in the period between the 4th and the 12th centuries offers a new critical approach to the study of warfare as a fundamental aspect of East Roman society and culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The book’s main goal is to provide a critical overview of current research as well as new insights into the role of military organization as a distinct form of social power in one of history’s more long-lived empires. The various chapters consider the political, ideological, practical, institutional and organizational aspects of Byzantine warfare and place it at the centre of the study of social and cultural history. Contributors are Salvatore Cosentino, Michael Grünbart, Savvas Kyriakidis, Tilemachos Lounghis, Christos Makrypoulias, Stamatina McGrath, Philip Rance, Paul Stephenson, Yannis Stouraitis, Denis Sullivan, and Georgios Theotokis. See inside the book.

Battle in Antiquity
Battle in Antiquity

Author: Alan B. Lloyd

Publisher: Classical Press of Wales

Published: 2009-12-31

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1910589381

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How do fighting men act and feel in battle? How do they deal with the trauma of conflict? What determines the outcome of battle? Modern research on war, notably that of John Keegan and Victor Hanson, has posed these questions with a new acuteness. In the ancient world, warfare was a constant reality. Much ancient literature deals with it. The present collection of original studies applies the new methods, for the first time, to the warriors of Greece, Rome and Pharaonic Egypt. The contributors demonstrate that the battle-experience of Homer's heroes and of Alexander's infantrymen compares surprisingly with that of Wellington's redcoats.