The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire
By: Edward N. Luttwak.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780674035195
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The invention of Byzantine strategy; title: Attila and the crisis of empire; title: The emergence of the new strategy; title: pt. 2. Byzantine diplomacy : the myth and the methods; title: Envoys; title: Religion and statecraft; title: The uses of imperial prestige; title: Dynastic marriages; title: The geography of power; title: Bulghars and Bulgarians; title: The Muslim Arabs and Turks; title: pt. 3. The Byzantine art of war; title: The classical inheritance; title: The strategikon of Maurikios; title: After the strategikon; title: Leo VI and naval warfare; title: The tenth-century military renaissance; title: Strategic maneuver : Herakleios defeats Persia; title: Conclusion: Grand strategy and the Byzantine "operational code"; title: Appendix: Was strategy feasible in Byzantine times?; title: Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI; title: Glossary.