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Immacolata Eramo proposes a new critical edition of the Rhetorica militaris, the only manual of military rhetorics handed down by tradition, written in the in the second half of the 9th century. Her project aims to establish a critical version of the text based on the entire manuscript tradition known to us by now and to provide the first Italian translation of the manual.
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.
Frank Meier introduces the topics of violence and captivity in medieval warfare. He confronts normative thinking about violence with the practices of violence.
In this short book, Charles J. Halperin examines the transformation of the myth of the Rus’ Land. According to the author’s concept, this myth, which originated in the pre-Christian era (before 988), evolved from a clan-based myth into a dynastic legend of the Rurikids. Initially associated exclusively with the Dnieper River valley, the myth was transferred in the 14th century to the Suzdal region (translatio of the Rus’ land), where Moscow rulers (Vladimirovichi, a branch of the Rurikids dynasty) monopolized it.
Martin Clauss is a professor of Medieval History at the University of Chemnitz. His expertise in medieval warfare is attested by various books, “Militärgeschichte des Mittelalters” being one of his latest (2020), published as part of the C.H.Beck Wissen series.
This book by Nicholas Morton focuses not, as the title would suggest, on the Mongol Empire itself but on the many different cultures, religions, and empires of the Near East and their reactions to the oncoming Mongol Storm. The book is divided into twelve rather short sections, which highlight the various aspects of the invasion from different geographical, political, religious, and cultural viewpoints.
At its core, the book espouses an understanding of the concept of slavery taken from Orlando Patterson and Jennifer Glancy, which not only sees the relationship between master and slave as one of total domination of the latter by the former, but also considers the status and experience of a person of unfree status as fundamentally influenced by their gender.
The edited volume at hand aims to provide an overview of contemporary international discourse on the subject for both students and researchers. It assembles 27 current perspectives of academics on the role of the Crusades in the historical culture of their respective countries.
In this short book, Nikolas Jaspert attempts to provide an overview of the history of the so-called Reconquista. Contrary to the image of a steady reconquest of Islamic territories, Jaspert aims to stress that this period was in fact characterized by various kinds of cultural exchange. Against this backdrop, he deconstructs the Reconquista as a powerful, but flawed narrative that does not sufficiently take into account the changing courses of the wars on the Iberian Peninsula and which obscures other aspects of the relations between Christians, Muslims and also Jews in this period.
Bryan Gillis explores the use of what he labels “horror rhetoric” by West-Francian authors in response to the misery befalling the kingdom from the 880s until the 920s
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
Timothy E.Gregory gives an overview over Byzantium’s history from the 3rd century to the fall of Constantinople.
The Book retells the history of the Turkish wars from the crusades in the 14th centuries until the great Turkish war in 1699.
Writing Battles explores the manifold functions of the battle depiction.
Haldon’s book explores the ways in which the medieval east Roman Empire secured its long existence.
This standard work of medieval cultures of war covers numerous aspects of medieval warfare and highlights connections between various regions and eras.
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).
Making History in Ninth-Century Northern and Southern Italy focuses on historical narratives in Italy, where locals interacted with Muslims, Franks and Byzantines.
In the book The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus Griffin examines the sources of information for eleventh- and twelfth-century Rus clerics
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”
Eduard Mühle investigates how Slavs were perceived in the medieval world and what concepts and beliefs European sources used to present the Slavs
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.