Maurice's Strategikon Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy

Name: Maurice's Strategikon Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy
Price: 26.83 USD
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ISBN: 9780812217728

ISBN-10: 0812217721

ISBN-13: 9780812217728

Edition: 1984

Authors: George T. Dennis, Ruth Mazo Karras

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As a veteran campaigner, the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582-602) compiled a unique and influential handbook intended for the field commander. In this first complete English translation, the Strategikon is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine history but for the general history of the art of war. Describing in detail weaponry and armor, daily life on the march or in camp, clothing, food, medical care, military law, and titles of the Byzantine army of the seventh century, the Strategikon offers insights into the Byzantine military ethos. In language contemporary, down-to-earth, and practical, the text also provides important data for the historian, and even the ethnologist,…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 1/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Michael Levi is David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.George T. Dennis was Emeritus Professor of History at Catholic University of America.