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ContentCsontents v Contents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii x Introduction: Military Power in the Christian Roman Empire, ca. 300-1204 1 Yannis Stouraitis Part 1 The Mentality of War 1 The Imperial Theology of Victory 23 Paul Stephenson 2 State War Ethic and Popular Views on Warfare 59 Yannis Stouraitis 3 Civil War in the Christian Empire 92 Yannis Stouraitis 4 The Enemies of the Empire: Portrayed Images 124 Michael Grünbart 5 Warfare as Literary Narrative 160 Stamatina McGrath 6 Alternative Means of Conflict Resolution 196 Tilemachos Lounghis Part 2 Warfare as Socio-Political Praxis 7 Army Structure: Roman Continuity and Byzantine Change 229 Savvas Kyriakidis vi Contents 8 Byzantine Fronts and Strategies 300-1204 259 Contents Acknowledgments vii Denis Sullivan List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix INTRODUCTION 9 Naval Warfare: Military, Institutional and Economic Aspects 308 Military Power in the Christian Roman Empire, c. 300-1204 1 Salvatore Cosentino Yannis Stouraitis 1 Part 1 The Mentality of War 10 Siege Warfare: The Art of Re-capture 356 Chapter 1 The Imperial Theology of Victory 23 Christos G. Makrypoulias Paul Stephenson 23 Chapter 2 State War Ethic and Popular Views on Warfare 59 11 The Army in Peace Time: The Social Status and Function of Yannis Stouraitis 59 Soldiers 394 Chapter 3 Civil War in the Christian Empire 92 Philip Rance Yannis Stouraitis 92 Chapter 4 The Enemies of the Empire: Portrayed Images* 124 12 Military Technology: Production and Use of Weapons 440 Michael Grünbart 124 Georgios Theotokis Chapter 5 Warfare as Literary Narrative 160 Stamatina McGrath 160 General Bibliography 473 Chapter 6 Alternative Means of Conflict Resolution 196 Index 482 Tilemachos Lounghis 196 483 Part 2 Warfare as Socio-Political Praxis Chapter 7 Army Structure: Roman Continuity and Byzantine Change 229 Savvas Kyriakidis 229 Chapter 8 Byzantine Fronts and Strategies 300-1204* 259 Denis Sullivan 259 Chapter 9 Naval Warfare: Military, Institutional and Economic Aspects 308 Salvatore Cosentino 308 Chapter 10 Siege Warfare: The Art of Re-Capture* 356 Christos G. Makrypoulias 356 Chapter 11 The Army in Peace Time: Social Status and the Function of Soldiers 394 Philip Rance 394 Chapter 12 Military Technology: Production and Use of Weapons 440 Georgios Theotokis 440 General Bibliography 473 Index 482 List of ILlilsuts otrfa Ftiigounsres and Tables vii List of Illustrations Maps 0.1 The Eastern Roman world x 8.1 The Persian front 265 8.2 The Balkan front 273 8.3 The Arab front 280 8.4 The Seljuk-Turkoman front 286 8.5 The Western front 295 Figures 4.1 Image of the Varangian guard, Skylitzes Matritensis, illustrated manuscript 132 4.2 Column of the Goths, Gülhane park, İstanbul 135 4.3 Egyptian obelisk from Karnak at the Byzantine hippodrome, İstanbul 136 viii Notes on Contributors Notes On Contributors Notes on Contributors Salvatore Cosentino is Professor of Byzantine History at the Università di Bolognia. He specializes in the social and military history of the Byzantine world. His publications in- clude Storia dell’Italia bizantina (VI-XI secolo). Da Giustiniano ai Normanni, Bo- logna 2008. Michael Grünbart is Professor of Byzantine History at the Universität Münster. He specializes in Byzantine epistlography and rhetoric. His publications include Inszenierung und Repräsentation der byzantinischen Aristokratie vom 10. bis zum 13. Jahrhun- dert (Münstersche Mittelalter-Schriften 82), Paderborn, Fink 2015. Savvas Kyriakidis is a Research Associate at the School of Languages of the University of Johan- nesburg. He specializes in Byzantine military history. His publications include Warfare in Late Byzantium. 1204-1453, Leiden 2011. Tilemachos Lounghis is Emeritus Director of Research at the Institute for Byzantine Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens). He specializes in social and political history. His publications include Byzantium in Eastern Mediterranean. Safeguarding East Roman Identity (409- 1204), Nicosia 2010. Christos Makrypoulias is an independent post-doctoral scholar based in Athens. He specializes in Byzantine military history. His publications include “Civilians as Combatants in Byzantium”, in J. Koder`, I. Stouraitis (eds.), Byzantine War Ideology Between Roman Imperial Concept and Christian Religion, Vienna 2012. Stamatina McGrath is adjunct faculty at the George Mason University and she specializes in tex- tual analysis of Middle Byzantine historical accounts, and the examination of hagiographical texts (saints’ lives) as sources for social history. Her publica- tions include The life of Saint Basil the Younger: critical edition and annotated translation of the Moscow versio, with A.-M. Talbot and Denis Sullivan, Wash- ington 2014. Notes on Contributors ix Philip Rance is a Renewed Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. He specializes in late antique and Byzantine warfare and martial culture. His publications include The Roman Art of War in Late Antiq- uity: The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice. A Translation with Commentary and Textual and Historical Studies, 2 vols (Byzantine and Ottoman Studies), Routledge 2017. Paul Stephenson is Professor of Byzantine History at Lincoln University. He specializes on the political and cultural history of the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. His publications include The Serpent Column: A Cultural Biogra- phy, New York – Oxford 2016. Yannis Stouraitis is Lecturer of Byzantine history at the University of Edinburgh. He specializes on the social aspects of warfare and on the content and function of identities and ideologies in the Byzantine world. His publications include Krieg und Frie- den in der politishen und ideologischen Wahrnehmung in Byzanz (7.-11. Jahrhun- dert), Vienna 2009. Denis Sullivan is Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Maryland. He specializes on critical editions, annotated translations, and analyses of military instruc- tional manuals and hagiographical texts. His publications include The life of Saint Basil the Younger: critical edition and annotated translation of the Moscow versio, with A.-M. Talbot and S. McGrath, Washington 2014. Georgios Theotokis is an independent post-doctoral scholar. He specializes in the history of the culture of war and ethnicity in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean (c. 900- 1500). His publications include The Norman campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108 AD, Boydell & Brewer 2014.
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