The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire
| Основен автор: | Luttwak, Edward. |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Съдържание:
- 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.