عنوان

The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire

9780674035195 (cloth : alk. paper)

لاتين

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Edward N. Luttwak

The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire

Cambridge, Mass. :

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

2009.

xi, 498 p. :maps ;25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-490) and index.

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.

Strategy--History--To 1500.

Military art and science--History.--Byzantine Empire

Imperialism--History--To 1500.

Byzantine Empire--Military policy.

Byzantine Empire--History, Military.

Byzantine Empire--Foreign relations.

مولف

Luttwak, Edward.