Aeneas Tacticus, late Hellenistic militarymanuals adapted and applied for the needs and realities of the Byzantine army, most of them deriving from the...
was still the official command language of the imperial army. Byzantinemilitarymanuals Thomas, Dennis T. (1984). Maurice's Strategikon. Philadelphia:...
treatise contains several novel aspects not touched upon in other Byzantinemilitarymanuals, such as an exact account of the formation and use of the cataphracts...
Greek fire is exclusively indirect, based on references in the Byzantinemilitarymanuals and a number of secondary historical sources such as Anna Komnene...
and fight to defend their plunder. Byzantine army Byzantine navy Byzantine bureaucracy Byzantinemilitarymanuals Komnenian army F. Schindler, Die Überlieferung...
the genre of Byzantine literature dealing with manuals on siege warfare, which is formally known as poliorcetics. As with much Byzantine literature, the...
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The Tactica (Greek: Τακτικά) is a military treatise written by or on behalf of Byzantine Emperor Leo VI the Wise in c. 895–908, and later edited by his...
De velitatione bellica is the conventional Latin title for the Byzantinemilitary treatise on skirmishing and guerrilla-type border warfare, composed circa...
possible due to the formation employed). It is for this reason that Byzantinemilitarymanuals (Praecepta Militaria and the Taktika) advise where possible, for...
τοῦ Κεκαυμένου, Latin: Cecaumeni Strategicon) is a late 11th century Byzantinemanual offering advice on warfare and the handling of public and domestic...
York: Routledge, 2017). 978-1-4724-7028-7. Georgios Chatzelis, ByzantineMilitaryManuals as Literary Works and Practical Handbooks: The Case of the Tenth-Century...
Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions is the conventional title given to a Byzantine literary treatise on warfare associated with Byzantine emperor Constantine...
Modern positional warfare and how to win it. Valerii Zaluzhnyi. Byzantinemilitarymanuals Allen, R.E., ed. (1990). Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current...
The Byzantine army was the primary military body of the Byzantine armed forces, serving alongside the Byzantine navy. A direct continuation of the Eastern...
Byzantines took care to codify, preserve and pass on the lessons of warfare at land and sea from past experience, through the use of militarymanuals...
Byzantine dress changed considerably over the thousand years of the Empire, but was essentially conservative. Popularly, Byzantine dress remained attached...
remained the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in the Mediterranean world. The term "Byzantine Empire" was only coined following the empire's...
For most of its history, the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire did not use heraldry in the Western European sense of permanent motifs transmitted through...
The Byzantine Empire experienced cycles of growth and decay over the course of nearly a thousand years, including major losses during the early Muslim...
Strategikon is the earliest surviving Roman/Byzantine cavalry manual, and directly influenced later Byzantinemilitarymanuals. The Strategikon describes the organization...
and maintenance of the Byzantine navy, fulfilling a tax supporting role largely in contrast from the more active and military themas of Strategos and...
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Byzantine Empire under the Nikephorian dynasty began following the deposition of the Byzantine empress Irene of Athens, the throne of the Byzantine Empire...
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