Format:
1 Online-Ressource (832 pages)
ISBN:
9789004254466
Series Statement:
History of warfare v. 91
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One An Age of Transition -- Chapter Two East Rome to Byzantium -- Chapter Three The Successor States in the West -- Chapter Four The Last Legions on the Rhine -- Chapter Five The Anatomy of a Siege -- Chapter Six The Anatomy of a Siege -- Chapter Seven Appropriation of Military Infrastructure and Knowledge -- Chapter Eight Diffusion of the Traction Trebuchet -- Appendix One Reconstructing the Arab invasion of Palestine and Syria from contemporary sources and the importance of Arab siege warfare -- Appendix Two ‘Iyad ibn-Ghanm’s invasion of Armenia in 640 and the Arab capacity for storming cities without heavy siege engines -- Appendix Three Arab grand strategy, 663-669 -- Conventions Adopted -- Bibliography -- Index Obsidionum -- General Index.
Content:
Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States is the first study to comprehensively treat an aspect of Byzantine, Western, early Islamic, Slavic and Steppe military history within the framework of common descent from Roman military organization to 800 AD. This not only encompassed the army proper, but also a greater complex of client management, private military retinues, labor obligations and civilian conscription in urban defense that were systematically developed by the Romans around 400, and survived to be adopted and adapted by all successors. The result was a common post-Roman military culture suitable for more restrained economic circumstances but still able to maintain, defend and attack city walls with skills rivalling those of their Roman forebears
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004251991
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004251995
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004254466
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