كتاب
Siege warfare and military organization in the successor states (400-800 AD): Byzantium, the West and Islam
العنوان: | Siege warfare and military organization in the successor states (400-800 AD): Byzantium, the West and Islam |
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المؤلفون: | Petersen, Leif Inge Ree. |
سنة النشر: | 2013 |
وصف مادي: | xxvii, 819 pages : maps ; 25 cm. |
سلاسل: | History of warfare History of warfare |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Siege warfare -- History -- To 1500., Sieges -- History -- To 1500., Military art and science -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500., HISTORY / Military / Other, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science |
جغرافية الموضوع: | Byzantine Empire -- History, Military., Islamic Empire -- History, Military., Europe -- History, Military -- To 1500. |
الوصف: | "Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States is the first study to comprehensively treat an aspect of Byzantine, Western, early Islamic, Slavic and Steppe military history within the framework of common descent from Roman military organization to 800 AD. This not only encompassed the army proper, but also a greater complex of client management, private military retinues, labor obligations and civilian conscription in urban defense that were systematically developed by the Romans around 400, and survived to be adopted and adapted by all successors. The result was a common post-Roman military culture suitable for more restrained economic circumstances but still able to maintain, defend and attack city walls with skills rivalling those of their Roman forebears"-- |
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Part one: Military organization and siege warfare. Introduction ; An age of transition: from the fall of the Roman West to the early Middle Ages ; East Rome to Byzantium: survival and renewal of military institutions ; The successor states in the West: Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and Lombards ; The last legions on the Rhine: siege warfare in the Frankish kingdoms ; The anatomy of a siege: tactics and technology ; The anatomy of a siege: economy, society and culture ; Appropriation of military infrastructure and knowledge ; Difffusion of the traction trebuchet ; Appendix one: Reconstructing the Arab invasion of Palestine and Syria from contemporary sources and the importance of Arab siege warfare ; Appendix two: ‘Iyad ibn-Ghanm’s invasion of Armenia in 640 and the Arab capacity for storming cities without heavy siege engines ; Appendix three: Arab grand strategy, 663-669: ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Khalid’s invasion, Saporios’ revolt, and the battle for Anatolia -- Part two: Corpus obsidionum (catalog of sieges). |
Original Identifier: | ocn845085569 |
نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
اللغة: | English |
ردمك: | 978-90-04-25199-1 90-04-25199-5 |
حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 765-788) and indexes. |
رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.013787004.3 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
ردمك: | 9789004251991 9004251995 |
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