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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material Volume 1 / Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Waging War in Late Antiquity / Alexander Sarantis -- War in Late Antiquity: Secondary Works, Literary Sources and Material Evidence / Conor Whately -- Military Equipment and Weaponry: A Bibliographic Essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Tactics: A Bibliographic Essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Organisation and Life in the Late Roman Military: A Bibliographic Essay / Conor Whately -- Strategy, Diplomacy and Frontiers: A Bibliographic Essay / Conor Whately -- Fortifications in the West: A Bibliographic Essay / Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Fortifications in Africa: A Bibliography Essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Fortifications in the East: A Bibliographic Essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Preliminary Material Volume 2 / Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Information and War: Some Comments on Defensive Strategy and Information in the Middle Byzantine Period (ca. A.D. 660–1025) / John Haldon -- Fortifications and the Late Roman East: From Urban Walls to Long Walls / James Crow -- Siege Warfare and Counter-Siege Tactics in Late Antiquity (ca. 250–640) / Michael Whitby -- Late Roman Military Equipment Culture / J. C. N. Coulston -- Barbarian Military Equipment and its Evolution in the Late Roman and Great Migration Periods (3rd–5th c. A.D.) / Michel Kazanski -- Recreating the Late Roman Army / John Conyard -- Reporting Battles and Understanding Campaigns in Procopius and Agathias: Classicising Historians’ Use of Archived Documents as Sources / Ian Colvin -- Procopius on the Struggle for Dara in 530 and Rome in 537–38: Reconciling Texts and Landscapes / Christopher Lillington-Martin -- Ammianus Marcellinus and the Nisibene Handover of A.D. 363 / Susannah Belcher -- Imperial Campaigns between Diocletian and Honorius, A.D. 284–423: the Rhine Frontier and the Western Provinces / Hugh Elton -- The Archaeology of War and the 5th c. ‘Invasions’ / Michael Kulikowski -- Controlling the Pyrenees: a Macaque’s Burial from Late Antique Iulia Libica (Llívia, La Cerdanya, Spain) / Oriol Olesti , Jordi Guàrdia , Marta Maragall , Oriol Mercadal , Jordi Galbany and Jordi Nadal -- The Archaeology of War: Homeland Security in the South-West Balkans (3rd–6th c. A.D.) / John Wilkes -- Military Encounters and Diplomatic Affairs in the North Balkans during the Reigns of Anastasius and Justinian / Alexander Sarantis -- Horsemen in Forts or Peasants in Villages? Remarks on the Archaeology of Warfare in the 6th to 7th c. Balkans / Florin Curta -- Military Infrastructure in the Roman Provinces North and South of the Armenian Taurus in Late Antiquity / James Howard-Johnston -- El-Lejjūn: Logistics and Localisation on Rome’s Eastern Frontier in the 6th c. A.D. / Conor Whately -- Wars within the Frontiers: Archaeologies of Rebellion, Revolt and Civil War / Neil Christie -- The Justinianic Reconquest of Italy: Imperial Campaigns and Local Responses / Maria Kouroumali -- Abstracts in French / Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Index / Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Series Information / Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie.