The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire /
Main Author: | Luttwak, Edward. |
---|---|
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2009.
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=327579 |
Related Items: |
Print version::
Grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire. |
Table of Contents:
- 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.