Research Catalog

Title

War and warfare in late antiquity / edited by Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sarantis, Alexander Constantine, 1978-
• Christie, Neil

Description

2 volumes (xxv, 1,084 pages) : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

This two volume publication explores the key factors determining the course and outcome of war in Late Antiquity. Volume 8.1 includes a detailed view of strategic and tactical issues and eight comprehensive bibliographic essays, which provide an overview of the literature. In volume 8.2, thematic papers examine strategy and intelligence, fortifications and siege warfare, weaponry and equipment, literary sources and topography, and civil war, while papers focused on particular geographic regions home in on war and warfare in the Western Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries, and the Balkans and the Eastern frontier in the 4th to 7th centuries AD.

Series Statement

Late antique archaeology, 1570-6893 ; 8

Uniform Title

Late antique archaeology ; 8.

Alternative Title

Current perspectives

Subjects

• Military art and science > History > Medieval, 500-1500
• Rome > Military antiquities
• Military art and science > Rome > History
• Europe, Eastern > Antiquities, Roman
• Military art and science > History > To 500
• Rome > History, Military > 30 B.C.-476 A.D

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• In English, with abstracts in French.

Contents

• Volume 1. Foreword / Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Waging war in Late Antiquity / Alexander Sarantis. Bibliographic Essays. War in Late Antiquity : secondary works, literary sources and material evidence / Conor Whately -- Military equipment and weaponry : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Tactics : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Organisation and life in the Late Roman military : a bibliographic essay / Conor Whately -- Strategy, diplomacy and frontiers : a bibliographic essay / Conor Whately -- Fortifications in the West : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis with Neil Christie -- Fortifications in Africa : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Fortifications in the East : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis.
• Volume 2. Strategy and Intelligence. Information and war : some comments on defensive strategy and information in the Middle Byzantine period (ca. A.D. 660-1025) / John Haldon -- Fortifications and Siege Warfare. Fortifications of the Late Roman East : from urban walls to long walls / James Crow -- Siege warfare and counter-siege tactics in Late Antiquity (ca. 250-640) / Michael Whitby -- Weaponry and Equipment. Late Roman military equipment culture / J.C.N. Coulston -- Barbarian military equipment and its evolution in the Late Roman and Great Migration Periods (3rd-5th c. A.D.) / Michel Kazanski -- Recreating the Late Roman Army / John Conyard -- Literary Sources and Topography. Reporting battles and understanding campaigns in Procopius and Agthias : classicising historians' use of archived documents as sources / Ian Colvin -- Procopius on the struggle for Dara in 530 and Rome in 537-38 : reconciling texts and landscapes / Christopher Lillington-Martin -- Ammianus Marcellinus and the Nisibene handover of A.D. 363 / Susannah Belcher -- The West. Imperial campaigns between Diocletian and Honorius, A.D. 284-423 : the Rhine frontier and the Western provinces / Hugh Elton -- The archaeology of war and the 5th c. 'invasions' / Michael Kulikowski -- Controlling the Pyrenees : a macaque's burial from Late Antique Iulia Libica (Llíva, La Cerdanya, Spain) / Oriol Olesti [and five others] -- The Balkans. The archaeology of war : homeland security in the south-west Balkans (3rd-6th c. A.D.) / John Wilkes -- Military encounters and diplomatic affairs in the north Balkans during the reigns of Anastasius and Justinian / Alexander Sarantis -- Horsemen in forts or peasants in villages? Remarks on the archaeology of warfare in the 6th to 7th c. Balkans / Florin Curta -- The East. Military infrastructure in the Roman provinces north and south of the Armenian Taurus in Late Antiquity / James Howard-Johnston -- El-Lejjūn : logistics and localisation on Rome's eastern frontier in the 6th c. A.D. / Conor Whately -- Civil War. Wars within the frontiers : archaeologies of rebellion, revolt and civil war / Neil Christie -- The Justinianic reconquest of Italy : imperial campaigns and local responses / Maria Kouroumali.

Call Number

JFE 16-4083

ISBN

• 9789004252578
• 9004252576
• 9789004252813
• 9004252819
• 9789004252820
• 9004252827
• 9789004252585 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013022107

OCLC

846847014

Title

War and warfare in late antiquity / edited by Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Late antique archaeology, 1570-6893 ; 8

Late antique archaeology ; 8.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

In English, with abstracts in French.

Added Author

Sarantis, Alexander Constantine, 1978- editor.

Christie, Neil, editor.

Cover Title

Current perspectives

Other Form:

9789004252585

(GyWOH)har135021851

Research Call Number

JFE 16-4083