Building in and by Military Manuals in Late Antiquity: Reverse-Reading Traditional and Innovative Features from City Walls in the Roman East

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Chapter 3 Building in and by Military Manuals in Late Antiquity

Reverse-Reading Traditional and Innovative Features from City Walls in the Roman East

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Military Literature in the Medieval Roman World and Beyond

Series: Reading Medieval Sources, Volume: 8

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004696433

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 May 2024

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- Classical Studies
  - Ancient History
  - Greek & Latin Literature
- History

Front Matter

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 The Late Antique World

Chapter 1 Using Vegetius’ Epitoma Rei Militaris as a Source for Late Antiquity

Chapter 2 Tribunes and Prefects of Legions according to Vegetius

Chapter 3 Building in and by Military Manuals in Late Antiquity

Chapter 4 Bravado on the Battlefield

Part 2 The Medieval Roman World

Chapter 5 The Strategikon of Maurice

Chapter 6 Authorship in Byzantine Military Literature

Chapter 7 Manuscript Illuminations in Military Manuals

Chapter 8 Dwarfs Fighting on the Shoulders of Giants

Chapter 9 Wars and Cultural Wars

Chapter 10 The Reading of Military Manuals in Byzantium from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Centuries

Part 3 Beyond the Roman World

Chapter 11 Medieval Contributions to Chinese Military Thought

Chapter 12 Medieval Mechanical Artillery ‘Treatises’

Chapter 13 Writing and Warfighting II

Part 4 Conclusion

Chapter 14 Timeless Principles of War and the Vertical Transmission of Military Knowledge through the Taktika

Epilogue

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