A tenth-century Byzantine military manual
Subtitle: the Sylloge tacticorum
By: translated by Georgios Chatzelis and Jonathan Harris
Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies; Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies
Publisher: Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781472470287; 9781315565316
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Drill and tactics; Military art and science; Early works to 1800; Tactics; Artillery drill and tactics; Byzantine Empire. Stratos; Byzantine Empire
Other titles: Sylloge tacticorum
Work titles: Sylloge tacticorum. English
Description: "The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies and tactics the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations, raids, sieges, ambushes and the distribution of booty. The Sylloge both reproduces material found in earlier texts and preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English and it is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Translated from the Greek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.