Research Catalog

Title

A tenth-century Byzantine military manual : the Sylloge tacticorum / translated by Georgios Chatzelis and Jonathan Harris.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chatzelis, Georgios,
• Harris, Jonathan,

Description

xi, 170 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies and tactics the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations, raids, sieges, ambushes and the distribution of booty. The Sylloge both reproduces material found in earlier texts and preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English and it is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work."--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ; volume 22

Uniform Title

• Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ; v. 22.
• Sylloge tacticorum. English.

Alternative Title

• 10th-century Byzantine military manual
• Sylloge tacticorum

Subjects

• Tactics
• Tactics > Early works to 1800
• Military art and science > Early works to 1800
• Byzantine Empire > Stratos > Drill and tactics
• Artillery drill and tactics
• Early works

Genre/Form

Early works.

Note

• Translated from the Greek.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9781472470287
• 1472470281

LCCN

2017002087

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library