War and warfare in late antiquity / / edited by Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie.

• Superior document: Late antique archaeology, volume 8.1-8.2
• TeilnehmendeR: Sarantis, Alexander Constantine, 1978-; Christie, Neil.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Late antique archaeology ; v. 8.1-8.2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1119 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material Volume 1 /; Waging War in Late Antiquity /; War in Late Antiquity: Secondary Works, Literary Sources and Material Evidence /; Military Equipment and Weaponry: A Bibliographic Essay /; Tactics: A Bibliographic Essay /; Organisation and Life in the Late Roman Military: A Bibliographic Essay /; Strategy, Diplomacy and Frontiers: A Bibliographic Essay /; Fortifications in the West: A Bibliographic Essay /; Fortifications in Africa: A Bibliography Essay /; Fortifications in the East: A Bibliographic Essay /; Preliminary Material Volume 2 /; Information and War: Some Comments on Defensive Strategy and Information in the Middle Byzantine Period (ca. A.D. 660–1025) /; Fortifications and the Late Roman East: From Urban Walls to Long Walls /; Siege Warfare and Counter-Siege Tactics in Late Antiquity (ca. 250–640) /; Late Roman Military Equipment Culture /; Barbarian Military Equipment and its Evolution in the Late Roman and Great Migration Periods (3rd–5th c. A.D.) /; Recreating the Late Roman Army /; Reporting Battles and Understanding Campaigns in Procopius and Agathias: Classicising Historians’ Use of Archived Documents as Sources /; Procopius on the Struggle for Dara in 530 and Rome in 537–38: Reconciling Texts and Landscapes /; Ammianus Marcellinus and the Nisibene Handover of A.D. 363 /; Imperial Campaigns between Diocletian and Honorius, A.D. 284–423: the Rhine Frontier and the Western Provinces /; The Archaeology of War and the 5th c. ‘Invasions’ /; Controlling the Pyrenees: a Macaque’s Burial from Late Antique Iulia Libica (Llívia, La Cerdanya, Spain) /; The Archaeology of War: Homeland Security in the South-West Balkans (3rd–6th c. A.D.) /; Military Encounters and Diplomatic Affairs in the North Balkans during the Reigns of Anastasius and Justinian /; Horsemen in Forts or Peasants in Villages? Remarks on the Archaeology of Warfare in the 6th to 7th c. Balkans /; Military Infrastructure in the Roman Provinces North and South of the Armenian Taurus in Late Antiquity /; El-Lejjūn: Logistics and Localisation on Rome’s Eastern Frontier in the 6th c. A.D. /; Wars within the Frontiers: Archaeologies of Rebellion, Revolt and Civil War /; The Justinianic Reconquest of Italy: Imperial Campaigns and Local Responses /; Abstracts in French /; Index /; Series Information /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004252584
• ISSN: 1570-6893
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie.

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 Guàrdia, 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.