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In his book, Fedir Androshchuk provides a comprehensive insight about the contacts between Scandinavians, Kievan Rus’, and Byzantium in the 9th–11th centuries. Through archaeological and written sources, he examines how trade, political networks, and cultural exchange shaped the formation of hybrid identities.
Georgios Theotokis and Dimitrios Sidiropoulos provide the first English translation of the Rhetorica militaris, a Middle Byzantine manual on military rhetorics. In their introduction, they give a good overview on previous research made on the manual’s literary context and further discuss significant aspects of the text’s contents.
Edited by James T. Chlup and Conor Whately, the volume supplies the readers with a solid overview of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine military treatises, with a particular focus on the tradition and genre.
“The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630” by Anthony Kaldellis and Marion Kruse is a new study that challenges the scholarship on the Notitia Dignitatum and offers a diffrent view on the source material. Spanning from Emporer Julian to Heraclius, the analysis provides insights into the military administration of the eastern roman troops.
In this book, Sarantis examines the historical and archaeological context of the developments in the Balkan provinces of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Justinian I. (527–565) in a comprehensive and detailed manner. In doing so, he aims to demonstrate that the Balkans were in no way politically or strategically subordinate, as the written sources may suggest.
In his monograph, Jan Prostko-Prostyński contextualises the history of the Heruls against the background of the migration period. The history of the Heruls shows how the development and migration of a military group in this period should always be understood in a wider context of tension between the Eastern Roman and Western Roman Empires. The few reports by ancient authors have received little attention from previous research and only a few publications on this gens have appeared in recent years.
Mihailo Milinković’s monograph deals with early Byzantine settlements on the territory of present-day Serbia and its surroundings. These are the former late Roman provinces of Pannonia Secunda, Dalmatia, Moesia Prima, Dacia Ripensis, Dacia Mediterranea, Dardania and Praevalitana. The chronological focus lies in the 6th and early 7th century.
This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, which was one of the most significant events of the seventh century.
Gandila analyses the contacts between Romans and “barbarian” groups within Byzantine Danube border zone during the 6th–8th centuries.
The extensive article studies the military equipment visible in the illustrations of the Madrid Skylitzes.
Thomas Salmon aims at providing an overview on the characterizing features of the Byzantine science of warfare, siege and weaponry
The book under examination covers the period between 1185 and 1365 and has to do with the history of two nomadic peoples, namely the Cumans and the Tatars.
Timothy E.Gregory gives an overview over Byzantium’s history from the 3rd century to the fall of Constantinople.
Kaegis attempts to reexamine materials in the light of new discoveries about seventh-century Byzantium.
Military saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200 examines the changes which cults of Byzantine military saints underwent in Rus.
Haldon’s book explores the ways in which the medieval east Roman Empire secured its long existence.
Savvas Kyriakidis book examines late Byzantine military culture, influence of foreign cultures on Byzantine military practice and thought
The book under review presents the Byzantine warfare from the end of Justinian’s reign (565) until the capture of Constantinople by the crusaders of Western Europe (1204).
Kanellopoulos’ thesis presents and examines the military events of the period 1204-1461, as well as the Byzantine military tactics applied during this era.
David Nicolle is a military historian who focuses on the Middle Ages and the geographical area of the Middle East. The book is about weapons from Western Europe, while the second addresses the weapons of Byzantium, the Islamic world and India
The book of Dennis Sullivan is an edition of two Byzantine siege treatises attribute to “Heron of Byzantium”
Kosmas Panagiotidis thesis presents the organization of the Byzantine army in the Late Period.
This book counts as a standard work of Byzantine history. The text saw three editions at the German publisher’s C.H. Beck and two editions in English.