LIST 3: BYZANTINE MILITARY HISTORY

 

 

Reference [not for review]

 

Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium.  Edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan et al.  3 vols.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1991.

 

                                     

Primary Sources

                                                

Anonymous.  Three Byzantine Military Treatises.  Translated by George T. Dennis.  Dumbarton Oaks Texts 9.  Washington, DC:  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1985.

 

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions.  Edited and translated by John F. Haldon.  Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 28.  Vienna:  Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1990.

 

[“Heron of Byzantium” on Siegecraft.Siegecraft:  Two Tenth-Century Instruction Manuals by “Heron of Byzantium.”  Translated by Denis F. Sullivan.  Dumbarton Oaks Studies 36.  Washington DC:  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2000. Available on-line .

 

[Leo the Deacon.]  The History of Leo the Deacon:  Byzantine Military Expansion in the Tenth Century. Introduced and translated by Alice-Mary Talbot and Denis F. Sullivan.  Dumbarton Oaks Studies 41. Washington, DC:  Dumbarton Oaks, 2005.

 

[Leo VI] The Taktika of Leo VI: Text, Translation, and Commentary. Edited by George T. Dennis.  Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae 49; Dumbarton Oaks Texts 13.  Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2010

 

Maurice’s Strategicon:  Handbook of Military Strategy.  Translated by George T. Dennis.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984.

 

Nikephoros Phokas, Praecepta Militaria and Taktika.  In Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth:  Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century.  Edited by Eric McGreer. Dumbarton Oaks Studies 33.  Washington, DC:  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1995.

                  

Procopius.  English translation by H. B. Dewing.  7 vols.  Loeb Classical Library [Greek Authors] 48, 81, 107, 173, 217, 290, and 343.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Press, 1954. [The Wars are vols. 1-5; read on the Persian, the Vandal, or the Gothic campaign.]

 

Procopius:  History of the Wars, Secret History, and Buildings.  Abridged and translated by Averil Cameron.  New York:  Washington Square Press, 1962.

 

Praecepta Militaria.  Edited by Eric McGeer in Sowing the Dragon’s Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century. Dumbarton Oaks Studies 33.  Washington, DC:  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1995.  Pp. 3-65, 171-95.

[Roamnus I Lakapenos?]  Georgios Chatzelis. Byzantine Military Manuals as Literary Works and Practical Handbooks: The Case of the Tenth Century Sylloge Tacticorum. New York: Routledge, 2019.

                       

 

Secondary Sources

        

Read:  1) Angold, Michael. “The Byzantine State on the Eve of the Battle of Manzikert.”  Byzantinische Forschungen 16 (1991): 9-34; 2) Michael Bartusis. “The Cost of Late Byzantine Warfare and Defense.” Ibid., 75-89; and 3) Caroline Finkel.  “The Costs of Ottoman Warfare and Defense.” Ibid., 91-103.

 

Birkenmeier, John W.  The Development of the Komnenian Army, 1081-1180.  Leiden: Brill, 2002.

 

Blöndel, Sigfús.  The Varangians of Byzantium:  An Aspect of Byzantine Military History.  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1978.

 

Read:  1) Brand, Charles M.  “The Turkish Element in Byzantium, Eleventh/Twelfth Centuries.”  Dumbarton Oaks Papers 43 (1989): 1-25; 2) Jonathan Shepard.  “The Uses of Franks in Eleventh-Century Byzantium.”  Anglo-Norman Studies 15 (1992): 275-305; and 3) John L. Teall.  “The Barbarians in Justinian’s Armies” Speculum 40 (1965): 494-322.

 

The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World.  Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou and Roy Parviz Mottahedeh.  Washington, DC:  Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2001.

 

Grotowski, Piotr.  Arms and Armour of the Warrior Saints: Tradition and Innovation in Byzantine Iconography (843-1261). Translated by Richard Brzezinski. Medieval Mediterranean 87. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

 

Haldon, John.  The Byzantine Wars: Battles and Campaigns of the Byzantine Era. Charleston, SC:  Tempus 2001. 

 

Haldon, John.  Byzantium at War, AD 600-1453.  New York: Routledge,  2003.

 

Haldon, John.  Warfare, State, and Society in the Byzantine World.  London: UCL Press, 1999.

 

Heath, Ian.  Byzantine Armies, 1118-1461.  Osprey Men-at-Arms Series 287.  London: Osprey Publishing Company, 1995.

 

Kaegi, Walter Emil.  Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

 

Kolias, Taxiarchis G.  Byzantinische Waffen:  Ein Beitrag zur byzantinischen Waffenkunde von den Anfängen bis zur lateinischen Eroberung.  Byzantina Vindobonensia 17.  Vienna:  Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1988.

 

Kyriakidis, Savvas.  Warfare in Late Byzantium, 1204-1453.   History of Warfare 67. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

 

Madgearu, Alexandru. Byzantine Military Organization on the Danube, 10th-12th Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

 

Peace and War in Byzantium:  Studies in Honor of George T. Dennis, SJ.  Edited by Timothy S. Miller and John Nesbitt.  Washington, DC:  Catholic University of America Press, 1995.

 

Parnell, David. Alan. Justinian's men: Ccareers and relationships of Byzantine Army Officers, 518-610. London: Palgrave MacMIllan, 2017

 

Read: 1)  Kaegi, Walter Emil.  “Procopius the Military Historian.” Byzantinische Forschungen 15 (1990): 53-85; and 2) Philip Pattenden. “The Byzantine Early Warning System.”  Byzantion 53 (1983): 258-99.

Sarantis, Alexander, Justinian's Balkan Wars: Campaigning, Diplomacy and Development in  Lillyriucm, Thrace and the Northern World AD 527-565. Tallahassee: Francis Cairns Publications, 2016.

 

Treadgold, Warren.  Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081.  Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 1995.

 

Theotokis, Georgios. The Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108. Rochester: Boydell & Brewer, 2014.

 

Vryonis, Speros.  The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor and the Process of Islamization from the Eleventh through the Fifteenth Century.  Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies UCLA 4.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1971.

 

Whitby, Michael.  The Emperor Maurice and His Historian:  Theophylact Simocatta on Persian and Balkan Warfare.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.