Maurice's Strategikon. Handbook Of Byzantine Military Strategy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 1984
Edition: First Edition

Description: 178 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 9780812217728