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A tenth-century Byzantine military manual : the Sylloge tacticorum

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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Additional Authors
  • Chatzelis, Georgios
  • Harris, Jonathan
Description
xi, 170 pages; 25 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
Uniform Title
  • Sylloge tacticorum. English.
  • Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies.
Alternative Title
  • Sylloge tacticorum
  • 10th-century Byzantine military manual
Subject
  • Byzantine Empire. Stratos > Drill and tactics
  • Byzantine Empire. Stratos
  • Military art and science > Early works to 1800
  • Tactics > Early works to 1800
  • Artillery drill and tactics
  • Military art and science
  • Tactics
  • Kriegführung
  • Militär
  • Taktik
  • Military art and science > Byzantine Empire
  • Byzantinisches Reich
Genre/Form
Early works.
Note
  • Translated from the Greek.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgements, p.viii -- List of abbreviations, p.ix -- Glossary, p.x -- Conventions used in the translation, p.xii -- Introduction, p.1 -- Translation, p.13 Notes, p.119 -- Bibliography, p.151 -- Index, p.165
ISBN
  • 9781472470287
  • 1472470281
  • 9781315565316 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781317186397 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781317186403 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781317186380 (Mobipocket ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2017002087
OCLC
  • ocn975371035
  • 975371035
  • SCSB-8869439
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library