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  • Byzantine Sources for the Crusades, 1095-1204

    Edited by Georgios Chatzelis, Jonathan Harris ...
    Series series Crusade Texts in Translation
    The Christian, Greek-speaking Byzantine empire was placed rather uneasily between western Christendom and the Islamic world during the Crusade era. Like all historical topics – particularly medieval – sources on the crusades give a variety of perspectives and accounts, but Byzantine writers provide a unique outlook on these crucial events.Byzantine Sources for the Crusades, 1095–1204 brings ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Byzantine Military Manuals as Literary Works and Practical Handbooks

    The Case of the Tenth-Century Sylloge Tacticorum

    by Georgios Chatzelis ...
    This book studies the Sylloge Tacticorum, an important tenth-century Byzantine military manual. The text is used as a case study to connect military manuals with the challenges that Byzantium faced in its wars with the Arabs, but also with other aspects of Byzantine society such as education, politics, and conventions in the productions of literary texts and historical narratives.The book explores ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

    Edited by Jonathan Harris, Georgios Chatzelis ...
    Series series Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
    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, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Legions of Rome

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    by Stephen Dando-Collins ...
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  • The Alexiad

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    Translated by E. R. A. Sewter ...
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  • The Military Orders of the Middle Ages

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    In a rude and primitive condition of mankind might constitute right and strength and daring give rank. The aristocracy, therefore, will consist of the warriors while the weak, the young, the old and the women will occupy an inferior position. An uncivilized race is always at war. A system of mutual fear, hatred and injury seems to be the normal condition of savage man, in all ages and in every ... Read more

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    Translated by John Yardley ...
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