Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in the Tenth Century

A Comparative Study

Georgios Theotokis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-3104-0 (ISBN)

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This book examines the strategies and military tactics of the Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century. This period of conflict is difficult to define: it was too inactive to be called a ‘war’ but too active to be called a ‘cold war’. Nevertheless, it was a ‘war’, even if it lacked the numerous pitched battles or protracted sieges that defined other periods or other operational theatres of war. This study examines the way the Byzantines innovated and adapted their strategies and tactics to those of their enemies in the East, giving a rich picture of tenth-century Byzantine warfare.

Georgios Theotokis is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Byzantine Studies Research Centre, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He is the author of Norman Campaigns in the Balkans 1081-1108 (2014) and editor of Military History of the Mediterranean Sea (2018).

Acknowledgements

List of rulers

Map of Anatolia and Upper Mesopotamia

Map of Armenian themes and principalities

Introduction

The "Grand Strategy" of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine and Arab strategies and campaigning tactics in Cilicia and Anatolia (eighth–tenth centuries)

The Empire’s foreign policy in the East and the key role of Armenia (c. 870–965)

The Byzantine view of their enemies in the battlefield – the Arabs

Methods of transmission of (military) knowledge (I): reconnaissance, intelligence

Methods of transmission of (military) knowledge (II): espionage

Tactical changes in the Byzantine armies of the tenth century – Theory and practice in the battlefields of the East

Tactical changes in the Byzantine armies of the tenth century – investigating the root causes

Byzantine–Arab battles of the tenth century: evidence of innovation and adaptation in the chronicler sources

Tactical innovation and adaptation in the Byzantine army of the tenth century: the study of the battles

Summaries and conclusions

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2020
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	545 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4744-3104-6 / 1474431046
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-3104-0 / 9781474431040
Zustand	Neuware