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.