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The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire
- Title
- The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire / Edward N. Luttwak.
- Author
- Luttwak, Edward.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 498 p. : maps; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-490) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. The invention of Byzantine strategy -- Attila and the crisis of empire -- The emergence of the new strategy -- pt. 2. Byzantine diplomacy : the myth and the methods -- Envoys -- Religion and statecraft -- The uses of imperial prestige -- Dynastic marriages -- The geography of power -- Bulghars and Bulgarians -- The Muslim Arabs and Turks -- pt. 3. The Byzantine art of war -- The classical inheritance -- The strategikon of Maurikios -- After the strategikon -- Leo VI and naval warfare -- The tenth-century military renaissance -- Strategic maneuver : Herakleios defeats Persia -- Conclusion: Grand strategy and the Byzantine "operational code" -- Appendix: Was strategy feasible in Byzantine times? -- Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI -- Glossary.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-5361
- ISBN
- 9780674035195
- 0674035194
- LCCN
- 2009011799
- OCLC
- 2009011799
- Author
- Luttwak, Edward.
- Title
- The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire / Edward N. Luttwak.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-490) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-5361