The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire / Edward N. Luttwak.

Author/creator Luttwak, Edward
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Descriptionxi, 498 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Subjects
Strategy--History. --To 1500.
Military art and science--Byzantine Empire. --History.
Imperialism--History. --To 1500.
Byzantine Empire--Military policy.
Byzantine Empire--History, Military.
Byzantine Empire--Foreign relations.

Contents The invention of Byzantine strategy. Attila and the crisis of empire ; The emergence of the new strategy ; 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 -- 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-- Grand strategy and the Byzantine "operational code" -- Appendix. Was strategy feasible in Byzantine times? -- Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI.
Local noteLittle-357860--305131063114S
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [433]-490) and indexes.
LCCN 2009011799
ISBN9780674035195 (cloth : alk. paper) :
ISBN0674035194 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks U163 .L86 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold