TY - BOOK ID - 15886566 TI - A tenth-century Byzantine military manual : the Sylloge tacticorum AU - Chatzélīs, Geṓrgios AU - Harris, Jonathan PY - 2017 SN - 9781472470287 1472470281 9781315565316 9781317186380 PB - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Military art and science KW - Tactics KW - Byzantine Empire. KW - Drill and tactics. KW - Artillery drill and tactics. KW - Military art and science. KW - Tactics. KW - Drill and minor tactics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15886566 AB - "The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies and tactics the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations, raids, sieges, ambushes and the distribution of booty. The Sylloge both reproduces material found in earlier texts and preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English and it is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work."--Provided by publisher. ER -