Byzantium And Its Army: 284-1081
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
For nearly eight centuries, the Byzantine Empire endured as one of history's most formidable military powers, and Warren Treadgold's Byzantium and Its Army: 284–1081 presents a rigorous and authoritative account of the institution that made this remarkable longevity possible. Spanning from the reign of Diocletian to the eve of the First Crusade, this meticulously researched work chronicles the structural evolution of the Byzantine military — its size, organisation, pay, recruitment, and the profound relationship between the army and the imperial state — drawing on a vast range of primary sources to reconstruct a comprehensive picture of a fighting force that shaped the medieval world. Treadgold argues with compelling precision that the army was not merely a tool of Byzantine statecraft but its very backbone, a living institution whose fortunes were inextricably bound to the empire's political and economic health. His analytical style is exacting and data-driven, presenting detailed numerical estimates and financial records that challenge long-held assumptions about the scale and capability of Byzantine forces. A landmark contribution to Byzantine studies, this work leaves the reader with an urgent question: how did an empire so dependent on its military ultimately lose control of the very instrument of its survival?
Author: Warren Treadgold
Format: Hardback
Published: 1995, Stanford University Press
Genre: Military history
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
For nearly eight centuries, the Byzantine Empire endured as one of history's most formidable military powers, and Warren Treadgold's Byzantium and Its Army: 284–1081 presents a rigorous and authoritative account of the institution that made this remarkable longevity possible. Spanning from the reign of Diocletian to the eve of the First Crusade, this meticulously researched work chronicles the structural evolution of the Byzantine military — its size, organisation, pay, recruitment, and the profound relationship between the army and the imperial state — drawing on a vast range of primary sources to reconstruct a comprehensive picture of a fighting force that shaped the medieval world. Treadgold argues with compelling precision that the army was not merely a tool of Byzantine statecraft but its very backbone, a living institution whose fortunes were inextricably bound to the empire's political and economic health. His analytical style is exacting and data-driven, presenting detailed numerical estimates and financial records that challenge long-held assumptions about the scale and capability of Byzantine forces. A landmark contribution to Byzantine studies, this work leaves the reader with an urgent question: how did an empire so dependent on its military ultimately lose control of the very instrument of its survival?