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Vikings in the East
Androshchuk, Fedir

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.

Review by: Scheuerle, Anita, 2025-11-13 10:42
#Androshchuk, Fedir
#Byzantine Empire
#Eastern Europe
#Rus
#Scandinavia
#Archaeology
#Burials
#Trade
#Warfare and Military Organization
#Early Middle Ages
#High Middle Ages

Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century. A Translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris
Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios and Theotokis, Georgios

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.

Review by: Doğanay, Merdan, 2025-09-18 08:59
#Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios
#Theotokis, Georgios
#Byzantine Empire
#Historical Military Manuals
#Rhetorics
#Middle Ages

Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Genre and History
Chlup, James T. and Whately, Conor

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.

Review by: Kurtoğlu, Ferhat Sezer, 2025-09-17 02:45
#Chlup, James T.
#Whately, Conor
#Byzantine Empire
#Greece
#Roman Empire
#Historical Military Manuals
#Tactics and military organization
#Antiquity
#Middle Ages

The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire
Kaldellis, Anthony and Kruse, Marion

“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.

Review by: Schmidt, Vincent, 2025-03-13 07:50
#Kaldellis, Anthony
#Kruse, Marion
#Byzantine Empire
#Roman Empire
#Military History
#Administration
#Notitia Dignitatum

Justinian’s Balkan Wars. Campaigning, Diplomacy and Development in Illyricum, Thrace and the Northern World. A.D. 527–65
Sarantis, Alexander

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.

Review by: Molitor, Regina Maria, 2023-05-08 03:13
#Sarantis, Alexander
#Byzantine Empire
#Southern and Central Europe
#Political History
#Justinian I.
#Late Antiquity

A History of the Herules
Prostko-Prostyński, Jan

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.

Review by: Margreiter, Philipp, 2023-05-08 03:07
#Prostko-Prostyński, Jan
#Baltics
#Byzantine Empire
#Scandinavia
#Military History
#Auxiliaries
#Heruls
#Late Antiquity

Early Byzantine settlements in Serbia and surroundings
Milinković, Mihailo

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.

Review by: Fischer, Samira, 2023-05-08 02:40
#Milinković, Mihailo
#Byzantine Empire
#Eastern Europe
#Archaeology
#Hilltop Settlements
#Late Antiquity

The Avar Siege of Constantinople in 626. History and Legend
Hurbanič, Martin

This book examines the Avar siege of Constantinople in 626, which was one of the most significant events of the seventh century.

Review by: Gediminskaitė, Guoda, 2022-09-27 09:22
#Hurbanič, Martin
#Byzantine Empire
#Diplomacy
#Rituals
#Byzantine army
#Byzantine-Persian relations
#Siegecraft
#Heraclius

Cultural Encounters on Byzantium’s Northern Frontier
Gandila, Andrei

Gandila analyses the contacts  between Romans and “barbarian” groups  within Byzantine Danube border zone during the 6th–8th centuries.

Review by: Molitor, Regina Maria, 2022-09-21 12:45
#Gandila, Andrei
#Byzantine Empire
#Frontier societies & border regions
#Late Antiquity

Military Equipment in the Byzantine Manuscript of Skylitzes
Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Ada

The extensive article studies the military equipment visible in the illustrations of the Madrid Skylitzes.

Review by: Schoneveld, Katharina, 2022-09-08 08:55
#Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Ada
#Byzantine Empire
#Siegecraft
#Middle Ages

The Byzantine Science of Warfare: From Treatises to Battlefield
Salmon, Thomas

Thomas Salmon aims at providing an overview on the characterizing features of the Byzantine science of warfare, siege and weaponry

Review by: Schoneveld, Katharina, 2022-09-08 08:46
#Salmon, Thomas
#Byzantine Empire
#Siegecraft
#Tactics and military organization
#Early Middle Ages
#Middle Ages

Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365
Vásáry, István

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.

Review by: Rukavichnikova, Maria, 2022-04-05 05:11
#Vásáry, István
#Byzantine Empire
#Cultural History
#Diplomacy
#Military History
#Auxiliaries
#Cavalry
#Chivalry
#Michael VIII Palaiologos
#High Middle Ages

A History of Byzantium
Gregory Timothy E.

Timothy E.Gregory gives an overview over Byzantium’s history from the 3rd century to the fall of Constantinople.

Review by: Guthier, Sophia Sonja, 2022-03-18 08:44
#Gregory Timothy E.
#Byzantine Empire
#Cultural History
#Historiography
#Byzantine-Persian relations
#Constantine
#Early Middle Ages
#Late Middle Ages
#Middle Ages

Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa
Kaegi, Walter E.

Kaegis attempts to reexamine materials in the light of new discoveries about seventh-century Byzantium.

Review by: Margreiter, Philipp, 2022-03-18 04:36
#Kaegi, Walter E.
#Byzantine Empire
#North Africa
#Military History
#Arab Expansion
#Exarchate of Carthage
#Late Antiquity

Military saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200
White, Monica

Military saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200 examines the changes which  cults of Byzantine military saints underwent in Rus.

Review by: Guthier, Sophia Sonja, 2021-10-11 02:27
#White, Monica
#Byzantine Empire
#Rus
#Ideology
#Saints, Hagiography and Warfare
#Demetrios
#George
#Theodore
#Early Middle Ages

Byzantium at War: AD 600-1453
Haldon, John

Haldon’s book explores the ways in which the medieval east Roman Empire secured its long existence.

Review by: Guthier, Sophia Sonja, 2021-10-11 02:20
#Haldon, John
#Byzantine Empire
#Historiography
#Byzantine army
#Middle Ages

Warfare in Late Byzantium, 1204–1453
Kyriakidis, Savvas

Savvas Kyriakidis book examines late Byzantine military culture, influence of foreign cultures on Byzantine military practice and thought

Review by: Zafeiropoulos, Christos, 2021-09-20 06:01
#Kyriakidis, Savvas
#Byzantine Empire
#Byzantine army
#Civil War
#Weaponry
#Michael VIII Palaiologos
#Late Middle Ages

Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204
Haldon, John

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).

Review by: Zafeiropoulos, Christos, 2021-09-18 02:58
#Haldon, John
#Byzantine Empire
#Byzantine army
#Military Leadership and Command Structures
#Weaponry
#Late Antiquity
#Middle Ages

Η οργάνωση και η τακτική του βυζαντινού στρατού στην ύστερη περίοδο (1204-1461)
Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos Stergios

Kanellopoulos’ thesis presents and examines the military events of the period 1204-1461, as well as the Byzantine military tactics applied during this era.

Review by: Zafeiropoulos, Christos, 2021-05-19 12:22
#Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos Stergios
#Byzantine Empire
#Byzantine army
#Tactics and military organization
#Michael VIII Palaiologos
#Late Middle Ages

Byzantium, the Islamic World & India AD 476-1526
Nicolle, David

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

Review by: Schoneveld, Katharina, 2021-04-29 11:15
#Nicolle, David
#Byzantine Empire
#India
#overview
#Siegecraft
#Middle Ages

Siegecraft. Two Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals by “Heron of Byzantium”
Sullivan, Denis

The book of Dennis Sullivan is an edition of two Byzantine siege treatises attribute to “Heron of Byzantium”

Review by: Schoneveld, Katharina, 2021-04-29 11:10
#Sullivan, Denis
#Byzantine Empire
#Source and Commentary
#Siegecraft
#Heron of Alexandria
#Middle Ages

Η οργάνωση του στρατού κατά την ύστερη βυζαντινή περίοδο (1204-1453)
Panagiotidis, Kosmas

Kosmas Panagiotidis  thesis presents the organization of the Byzantine army in the Late Period.

Review by: Zafeiropoulos, Christos, 2021-04-29 10:39
#Panagiotidis, Kosmas
#Byzantine Empire
#Auxiliaries
#Byzantine army
#Tactics and military organization
#Michael VIII Palaiologos
#Late Middle Ages

Byzantinische Geschichte
Ostrogorsky, Georg

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.

Review by: Ulrich, Sonja, 2021-04-29 10:05
#Ostrogorsky, Georg
#Byzantine Empire
#overview
#Constantine
#Middle Ages

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