Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (The Middle Ages Series)

George T. Dennis

ISBN 10: 0812278992 / ISBN 13: 9780812278996

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984

About this Item

Teal boards with gilt on spine. Upper tips of three pages creased. Otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket has short tear and crease at top edge on the back. There is mild shelf wear to the spine head, heel, and tips, and a light pink stain on the back of the jacket. The top edge of the jacket flaps are slightly yellowed. From the library of Prof. John Scarborough, School of Pharmacy and Department of Classics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, with his name and date on front flyleaf.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (The Middle Ages Series)
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812278992
• ISBN 13: 9780812278996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • J. Scarborough Collection

About this title

Synopsis

As a veteran campaigner, the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582-602) compiled a unique and influential handbook intended for the field commander. In this first complete English translation, the Strategikon is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine history but for the general history of the art of war. Describing in detail weaponry and armor, daily life on the march or in camp, clothing, food, medical care, military law, and titles of the Byzantine army of the seventh century, the Strategikon offers insights into the Byzantine military ethos. In language contemporary, down-to-earth, and practical, the text also provides important data for the historian, and even the ethnologist, including eyewitness accounts of the Persians, Slavs, Lombards, and Avars at the frontier of the Empire.

About the Author

Editor of the definitive Greek text of the Strategikon, George T. Dennis is the editor and translator also of Three Byzantine Military Treatises and The Letters of Manuel II Palaeologus. He is Professor Emeritus of History, The Catholic University of America.