Format:
1 online resource (1119 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004252585
Series Statement:
Late Antique Archaeology Ser. v.8
Content:
This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war and Italy.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Waging War in Late Antiquity -- Bibliographic Essays -- War in Late Antiquity: Secondary Works, Literary Sources and Material Evidence -- Military Equipment and Weaponry: A Bibliographic Essay -- Tactics: A Bibliographic Essay -- Organisation and Life in the Late Roman Military: A Bibliographic Essay -- Strategy, Diplomacy and Frontiers: A Bibliographic Essay -- Fortifications in the West: A Bibliographic Essay -- Fortifications in Africa: A Bibliographic Essay -- Fortifications in the East: A Bibliographic Essay -- Strategy and Intelligence -- Information and War: Some Comments on Defensive Strategy and Information in the Middle Byzantine Period (ca. A.D. 660-1025) -- Fortifications and Siege Warfare -- Fortifications and the Late Roman East: From Urban Walls to Long Walls -- Siege Warfare and Counter-Siege Tactics in Late Antiquity (ca. 250-640) -- Weaponry and Equipment -- Late Roman Military Equipment Culture -- Barbarian Military Equipment and its Evolution in the Late Roman and Great Migration Periods (3rd-5th C. A.D.) -- Recreating the Late Roman Army -- Literary Sources and Topography -- Reporting Battles and Understanding Campaigns in Procopius and Agathias: Classicising historians' use of archived documents as sources -- Procopius on the Struggle for Dara in 530 and Rome in 537-38: Reconciling Texts and Landscapes -- Ammianus Marcellinus and the Nisibene Handover of A.D. 363 -- The West -- Imperial Campaigns between Diocletian and Honorius, A.D. 284-423: The Rhine Frontier and the Western Provinces -- The Archaeology of War and the 5th c. 'Invasions' -- Controlling the Pyrenees: A Macaque's Burial from Late Antique Iulia Libica (Llívia, La Cerdanya, Spain) -- The Balkans -- The Archaeology of War: Homeland Security in the South-West Balkans (3rd-6th c. A.D.).
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004252578
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004252578
Language:
English
URL:
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