The ethnika in Byzantine military treatises

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by  John Earl Wiita

WIITA, John Earl
THE ETHNIKA IN BYZANTINE MILITARY TREATISES.
University of Minnesota, Ph.D., 1977
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UNIVERSITY MICROFILMS INTERNATIONAL.
THE ETHNIKA IN BYZANTINE MILITARY TREATISES
A THESIS
SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
By
JOHN EARL WIITA
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abbreviations for serials, collections, and
reference works.................................. 1
Introduction. Methodology. The Date and
Authorship of the Strateqicon.................... 3
Prologue. On the Customs and Battle Formations
of Each Nation.................................. 50
Chapter
I. How One Ought to Deal with the Persians...........53
II. How One Ought to Deal with the Scythians,
that is, the Avars and Turks, and the
Rest of the Hunnic Nations Like Them . . . . 112
III. How One Ought to Deal with the Fairhaired
Nations Like the Franks, the Lombards
and the Rest of Those Like Them..............171
IV. How One Ought to Deal with the Slavs and
the Antes and Similar Peoples............... 246
Epilogue........................................ 343
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Appendix A. The Stirrup i ............................ 347
Appendix B. The Tents of the Avars and Turks.......... 370
Appendix C. The Arabs in Early Byzantine Military 373
Treatises ..........................
ABBREVIATIONS FOR SERIALS, COLLECTIONS,
AND REFERENCE WORKS
AASH; Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae.
AB: Analecta Bollandiana.
Act A: Acta Archaeologica. Copenhagen.
AE: Archaeologiai Ertesito.
AM Iran; Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran.
AN SSSR; Akademiia nauk Soyuza Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh
Respublik.
AN2I; Akademii Nauk. Istoriko-filoloqicheskaia otdeleniia. .
Zapiski.
ASS; Acta sanctorum Bollandiana.
BZ; Byzantinische Zeitschrift.
CMH: Cambridge Medieval History.
POP: Dumbarton Oaks Papers.
JAOS: Journal of the American Oriental Society.
JOBG: Jahrbuch der osterreichischen byzantinischen
Gesellschaft.
JRS: Journal of Roman Studies.
'KSIA: Kratkie soobshcheniia instituta arkheoloqii AN SSSR.
KSIIMK: Kratkie soobshcheniia o> dokladakh i polevykh
issledovaniiakh instituta istorii materlal'noi
kul'tury AN SSSR~
MGH: Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
AA: Auctores AntiquissimiJ
Epp.: Epistulae.
LL: Leges.
SS; Scnptores.
SSRM; Scriptores rerum merovingicarum.
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MMB; Metropolitan Museum. Bulletin.
PW: Realencyclopgdie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft.
(Pauly-Wissowa)..
Rev. Hist. Eccl.: Revue de l'histoire eccl£siastique.
Settimane: Settimane di Studio del Centro Italiano di
Studi sull'Alto Medioevo.
SA; Sovetskaia Arkheologiia.
SBE: Sacred Books of the East.
SK; Seminarium Kondakovianum.
SSCIV; Studie si cercetari de istorie veche.
SSS: Sjfownik starozytnosci s^owianskich.
Tr. Mem.: Travaux et M&noires du Centre de recherche
d'histoire et civilisation byzantines.
Tx9: Trudy Khorezmskoi arkheologo-etnograficheskoi
ekspeditsii AN SSSR.
W ; Vizantiiskii Vremennik.
ZDMG; Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft.
ZfhWK; Zeitschrift fur historische Waffen- und Kostumkunde.
ZMNP; Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshcheniia.
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