The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire /
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Language: English
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2009.
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Call Number: U163 .L86 2009
Table of Contents:
- List of Maps Preface I. The Invention of Byzantine Strategy 1. Attila and the Crisis of Empire 2. The Emergence of the New Strategy II. Byzantine Diplomacy: The Myth and the Methods 3. Envoys 4. Religion and Statecraft 5. The Uses of Imperial Prestige 6. Dynastic Marriages 7. The Geography of Power 8. Bulghars and Bulgarians 9. The Muslim Arabs and Turks III. The Byzantine Art of War 10. The Classical Inheritance 11. The Strategikon of Maurikios 12. After the Strategikon 13. Leo VI and Naval Warfare 14. The Tenth-Century Military Renaissance 15. 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 Notes Works Cited Index of Names General Index.