Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081 Paperback - 1998
by Treadgold, Warren
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- Title Byzantium and Its Army, 284-1081
- Author Treadgold, Warren
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 284
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 221110003
- ISBN 9780804731638 / 0804731632
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.009
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The author traces the army's impact on the Byzantine state and society from the army's reorganization under Diocletian (284-305) until its disintegration in the aftermath of the battle of Manzikert (1071). He suggests solutions to some major unresolved questions of Byzantine military history: how big was the army, how was it organized, how much of it was cavalry, how much was it paid, how was it supplied, when and why did it receive land grants in the themes, and why, after surviving so many disasters, did it fail to survive the not particularly disastrous eleventh century?