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By Leo VI , George T. Dennis

ISBN-10: 0884023591

ISBN-13: 9780884023593

Even if he most likely by no means set foot on a battlefield, the Byzantine emperor Leo VI (886–912) had a full of life curiosity in army issues. Successor to Caesar Augustus, Constantine, and Justinian, he used to be anticipated to be effective in struggle and to topic barbarian peoples to Rome, so he got down to collect an outstanding wisdom of army gear and perform. The Byzantines had inherited a voluminous sequence of army treatises from antiquity on approximately each element of battle, from archery to conflict formations and the paintings of besieging or protecting. Leo meant to check all this, summarize it, and current an ordinary instruction manual for his officials on find out how to organize squaddies for struggle and the way to maneuver them on crusade and at the battlefield. He integrated a bankruptcy on naval battle and he defined Saracen (Arab) tools of warfare and the way to defeat them. The Tactical Constitutions, or Taktika, have been the end result. Painstakingly ready from a 10th century manuscript now in Florence, this is often the 1st sleek serious version of the full textual content of the Taktika and contains a dealing with English translation, explanatory notes, and wide indexes.

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