1st Edition
A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Glossary
Conventions used in the translation
Introduction
Translation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
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.
"As the first complete English translation of this text, this book is a welcome addition to the canon of accessible medieval Byzantine military manuals ... The book is also a welcome resource in part because the sources of each section are clearly cited and because it is also explained when there is no source or the author of the manual makes an unsubstantiated claim ... What makes this translation especially useful for historians of the tenth century is its status as a record of transitional tactical thought at a time when the Byzantines were adapting strategies in response to raids across territorial boundaries against both the Arabs and the Bulgars. Additionally, because some of the material here is based on a lost source or sources, it presents information and details new to the growing domain of English-language scholarship on Byzantine military manuals ... a pleasure to read."
- Meredith L.D. Riedel, Duke University, USA, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018
