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Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (Middle Ages)

Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy (Middle Ages)

Current price: $29.95
Publication Date: January 3rd, 2001
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:
9780812217728
Pages:
208
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Description

""The most important Byzantine military text. . . . The standard translation.""--Walter Kaegi, University of Chicago As a veteran campaigner, the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582-602) compiled a unique and influential handbook intended for the field commande.

About the Author

Editor of the definitive Greek text of the Strategikon, George T. Dennis is the editor and translator also of Three Byzantine Military Treatises and The Letters of Manuel II Palaeologus. He is Professor Emeritus of History, The Catholic University of America.