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Author Luttwak, Edward.

Title The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire / Edward N. Luttwak.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 498 pages) : maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-490) and index.
Contents pt. 1. The invention of Byzantine strategy -- Attila and the crisis of empire -- The emergence of the new strategy -- pt. 2. Byzantine diplomacy : the myth and the methods -- Envoys -- Religion and statecraft -- The uses of imperial prestige -- Dynastic marriages -- The geography of power -- Bulghars and Bulgarians -- The Muslim Arabs and Turks -- pt. 3. The Byzantine art of war -- The classical inheritance -- The strategikon of Maurikios -- After the strategikon -- Leo VI and naval warfare -- The tenth-century military renaissance -- Strategic maneuver : Herakleios defeats Persia -- Conclusion: Grand strategy and the Byzantine "operational code" -- Appendix: Was strategy feasible in Byzantine times? -- Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI -- Glossary.
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Subject Byzantine Empire -- Military policy.
Byzantine Empire.
Military policy.
Strategy -- History -- To 1500.
Strategy.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Military art and science -- Byzantine Empire -- History.
Military art and science.
Imperialism -- History -- To 1500.
Imperialism.
Byzantine Empire -- History, Military.
History, Military.
Byzantine Empire -- Foreign relations.
International relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Military history.
Other Form: Print version: Luttwak, Edward. Grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009 9780674035195 (DLC) 2009011799 (OCoLC)317361758
ISBN 9780674054202 (electronic book)
0674054202 (electronic book)
9780674035195 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

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