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Author:

Luttwak, Edward.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xi, 498 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Byzantine Empire--Military policy.
Strategy--History--To 1500.
Military art and science--Byzantine Empire--History.
Imperialism--History--To 1500.
Byzantine Empire--History, Military.
Byzantine Empire--Foreign relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-490) and indexes.

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.

ISBN:

0674035194
9780674035195 (hc.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317361758

LCCN:

2009011799

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)