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    War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.) by Sarantis, Alexander; Christie, Neil;

    Current Perspectives

    Series: Late Antique Archaeology; 8;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher BRILL
    • Date of Publication 23 August 2013
    • Number of Volumes 2 pieces,

    • ISBN 9789004252578
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages1094 pages
    • Size 235x155 mm
    • Weight 1982 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war and Italy.

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    This two-volume publication explores the key factors determining the course and outcome of war in Late Antiquity. Volume 8.1 includes a detailed review of strategic and tactical issues and eight comprehensive bibliographic essays, which provide an overview of the literature. In Volume 8.2, thematic papers examine strategy and intelligence, fortifications and siege warfare, weaponry and equipment, literary sources and topography, and civil war, while papers focused on particular geographic regions home in on war and warfare in the West Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries, and the Balkans and the Eastern frontier in the 4th to 7th centuries AD.
    Contributors are Susannah Belcher, Neil Christie, Ian Colvin, John Conyard, Jon Coulston, Jim Crow, Florin Curta, Hugh Elton, James Howard-Johnston, Jordi Galbany, Jordi Gu?rdia, John Haldon, Michel Kazanski, Maria Kouroumali, Michael Kulikowski, Christopher Lillington-Martin, Marta Maragall, Oriol Mercadal, Jordi Nadal, Oriol Olesti, Alexander Sarantis, Conor Whately, Michael Whitby and John Wilkes.

    "...Todo ello hace que, en efecto, la obra contribuya de manera notable a la difusión de importantes novedades, sobre todo aportadas por la arqueología, relativas a los conflictos bélicos y a sus efectos en tiempos tardo-antiguos, tanto en el Oriente como en el Occidente mediterráneo, así como del estado actual de la investigación.?
    Isaías Arrayás Morales (Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona), RUHM, Vol. 5/10/ 2016, pp. 375 - 445

    "...The papers present an abundance of evidence and debate which will remain for many years on the bookshelves of scholars interested in the late Roman period and especially military affairs. The editors are to be congratulated for the result of what must have been an onerous task but one which has provided a key resource for all students of Late Antiquity."
    Andrew Poulter (University of Nottingham), The Classical Review, Vol. 65, Issue 01, April 2015, pp. 240 - 242 (DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X14002856)



    "Overall, the editors and contributors should be proud of this compilation, which illustrates the enormous mass of current scholarship."
    Joseph Frechette (University of Maryland), H-War, H-Net Reviews, April 2015, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42373

    "These volumes are the latest addition to the invaluable Late Antique Archaeology series which has done much to strengthen late antique archaeology?s identity as a field in its own right...At over a thousand pages, this is a substantial work, and a sampling of the bibliographic essays, running to more than 250 pages, suggests that they will be a valuable resource...Overall, this is a very useful publication, both for its bibliographical surveys and for a good number of stimulating research papers."
    A.D. Lee (University of Nottingham), Medieval Archaeology, vol. 58, November 2014

    "...un ouvrage utile et de grande qualité. Il donne une premi?re lumi?re sur tous les aspects de la guerre durant l'Antiquité tardive et il permet de reprendre tous les aspects du sujet grâce aux listes de sources et de bibliographie, en général heureusement commentées. Dorénavant, personne ne pourra aborder l'histoire militaire de cette période sans commencer par voir ce qu'il apporte..."
    Yann Le Bohec, in sehepunkte 14 (2014), Nr. 2 [15.02.2014], URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2014/02/24248.html

    "...these two volumes will undoubtedly interest all those seeking to learn more about war and warfare during Late Antiquity, and I doubt that there is anyone who will not learn something new by reading the set..."
    David Woods, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.06.48.

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    Table of Contents:

    VOLUME 8.1

    Acknowledgements ... ix
    List of Contributors ... xi

    Foreword ... xvii
    Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie
    Waging War in Late Antiquity ... 1
    Alexander Sarantis

    Bibliographic Essays

    War in Late Antiquity: Secondary Works, Literary Sources and .M aterial Evidence ... 101
    Conor Whately
    Military Equipment and Weaponry: A Bibliographic Essay ... 153
    Alexander Sarantis
    Tactics: A Bibliographic Essay ... 177
    Alexander Sarantis
    Organisation and Life in the Late Roman Military: A Bibliographic Essay ... 209
    Conor Whately
    Strategy, Diplomacy and Frontiers: A Bibliographic Essay ... 239
    Conor Whately
    Fortifications in the West: A Bibliographic Essay ... 255
    Alexander Sarantis with Neil Christie
    Fortifications in Africa: A Bibliography Essay ... 297
    Alexander Sarantis
    Fortifications in the East: A Bibliographic Essay ... 317
    Alexander Sarantis

    VOLUME 8.2

    Strategy and Intelligence

    Information and War: Some Comments on Defensive Strategy and Information in the Middle Byzantine Period (ca. A.D. 660?1025) ... 373
    John Haldon

    Fortifications and Siege Warfare

    Fortifications and the Late Roman East: From Urban Walls to Long Walls ... 397
    James Crow
    Siege Warfare and Counter
    -Siege Tactics in Late Antiquity (ca. 250?640) ... 433
    Michael Whitby

    Weaponry and Equipment

    Late Roman Military Equipment Culture ... 463
    J. C. N. Coulston
    Barbarian Military Equipment and its Evolution in the Late Roman and Great Migration Periods (3rd?5th c. A.D.) ... 493
    Michel Kazanski
    Recreating the Late Roman Army ... 523
    John Conyard

    Literary Sources and Topography

    Reporting Battles and Understanding Campaigns in Procopius and Agathias: Classicising Historians? Use of Archived Documents as Sources ... 571
    Ian Colvin
    Procopius on the Struggle for Dara in 530 and Rome in 537?38: Reconciling Texts and Landscapes ... 599
    Christopher Lillington
    -Martin
    Ammianus Marcellinus and the Nisibene Handover of A.D. 363 ... 631
    Susannah Belcher

    The West

    Imperial Campaigns between Diocletian and Honorius, A.D. 284?423: the Rhine Frontier and the Western Provinces ... 655
    Hugh Elton
    The Archaeology of War and the 5th c. ?Invasions? ... 683
    Michael Kulikowski
    Controlling the Pyrenees: a Macaque?s Burial from Late Antique Iulia Libica (Llivia, La Cerdanya, Spain) ... 703
    Oriol Olesti, Jordi Gu?rdia, Marta Maragall, Oriol Mercadal, Jordi Galbany and Jordi Nadal

    The Balkans

    The Archaeology of War: Homeland Security in the South
    -West Balkans (3rd?6th c. A.D.) ... 735
    John Wilkes
    Military Encounters and Diplomatic Affairs in the North Balkans during the Reigns of Anastasius and Justinian ... 759
    Alexander Sarantis
    Horsemen in Forts or Peasants in Villages? Remarks on the Archaeology of Warfare in the 6th to 7th c. Balkans ... 809
    Florin Curta

    The East

    Military Infrastructure in the Roman Provinces North and South of the Armenian Taurus in Late Antiquity ... 853
    James Howard
    -Johnston
    El
    -Lejj?n: Logistics and Localisation on Rome?s Eastern Frontier in the 6th c. A.D. ... 893
    Conor Whately

    Civil War

    Wars within the Frontiers: Archaeologies of Rebellion, Revolt and.Civil War ... 927
    Neil Christie
    The Justinianic Reconquest of Italy: Imperial Campaigns and Local Responses ... 969
    Maria Kouroumali

    Abstracts in French ... 1001
    Index ... 1009
    Series Information ... 1085

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