War and society in the ancient and medieval worlds
Subtitle: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica
By: edited by Kurt Raaflaub & Nathan Rosenstein.
Contributors: Raaflaub, Kurt A.; Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart.
Series: Center for Hellenic Studies colloquia ;; 3
Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Military history, Ancient -- Congresses; Military history, Medieval -- Congresses; War and society -- Congresses; War -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "A unique, multiauthored social history of war from the third millennium B.C.E. to the tenth century C.E. in the Mediterranean, the Near East, and Europe (Egypt, Achaemenid Persia, Greece, the Hellenistic world, the Roman, Republic and Empire, the Byzantine Empire the early Islamic world, and early medieval Europe), with parallel studies of Mesoamerica (the Maya and Aztecs) and East Asia (China, Japan)."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on papers presented at a colloquium held June 1996, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C.