Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum - The Sylloge Tacticorum

The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies and tactics the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations, raids, sieges, ambushes and the distribution of booty. The Sylloge both reproduces material found in earlier texts and preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English and it is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Glossary
Conventions used in the translation
Introduction
Translation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Georgios Chatzelis is a PhD student at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.
Jonathan Harris is Professor of the History of Byzantium at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Georgios Chatzelis, Georgios Harris Chatzelis, Jonathan Harris, Harris Jonathan
• Assisted by: Georgios Chatzelis (Editor), Jonathan Harris (Editor), Georgios Chatzelis (Translation), Jonathan Harris (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2017
• EAN: 9781472470287
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-7028-7
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Byzantine Empire, Combat / defence skills & manuals, Combat / defence skills and manuals