• The Strategikon or Strategicon (Greek: Στρατηγικόν) is a manual of war regarded as written in late antiquity (6th century) and generally attributed to...
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    Strategicon or Strategikon may refer to: The Strategikon of Maurice, a sixth-century Byzantine manual of war The Strategikon of Kekaumenos, an eleventh-century...
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  • The Strategikon of Kekaumenos (Greek: Στρατηγικὸν τοῦ Κεκαυμένου, Latin: Cecaumeni Strategicon) is a late 11th century Byzantine manual offering advice...
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    2013-05-01. Anonymous, De Rebus Bellicis: On matters of war. Maurice, Strategikon: On Strategy. Vegetius, Epitome Rei Militari: Epitome of Military science...
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    on the late Army's structure due to the dearth of other evidence. The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurikios, from the end of the 6th century, describes...
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  • are still attested in the 6th century military manual known as the Strategikon of Maurice, although it is unknown whether the standards they carried...
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    confused scholarship in the 1930s. One manuscript (M) ascribes Maurice’s Strategikon to Urbicius, but this is demonstrably the copyist’s error. The "Sixth-Century...
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    him, described in great detail the Byzantine army of the period in The Strategikon, a manual for commanders. Maurice, who reigned from 582 to 602, certainly...
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    in humid conditions; the 6th-century Byzantine military manual, the Strategikon, advised the cavalry of the Byzantine army, many of whom were armed with...
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    The first European literary reference to the stirrup may be in the Strategikon, traditionally ascribed to the Roman emperor Maurice, and therefore written...
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  • attested to in the Strategikon of Maurice, a military manual written in the 590s. Written in Greek, the author of the Strategikon "also frequently employed...
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    Byzantine Emperor Maurice wrote of the Avars and other nomad peoples in the Strategikon: "They give special attention to training in archery on horseback. A...
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    needed] A similar description of the Sclavenes and Antes is found in the Strategikon of Maurice, a military handbook written between 592 and 602 and attributed...
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  • (of Latin origin, as it appears as such–torna–in Emperors Mauricius Strategikon), and with fratre used as a colloquial form of address between the Byzantine...
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  • term first appears in use in the Byzantine army in the late 6th-century Strategikon of emperor Maurice, where it is reserved for the commander of the elite...
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    give the position of archon of the Vlachs to Nekulitsa is mentioned in Strategikon of Kekaumenos (written between 1075 and 1078 AD). After the Avar Khaganate...
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    antiquity, in particular by the historian Theophylact Simocatta. The Strategikon, a manual of war which influenced European and Middle Eastern military...
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  • 2014. Jordanes, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, V. 35. Maurice's Strategikon: handbook of Byzantine military strategy, trans. G.T. Dennis (1984),...
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    Historia ecclesiastica by Ordericus Vitalis Játvarðar Saga Laxdœla saga Strategikon of Kekaumenos by Kekaumenos Buckler, Georgina. Anna Komnena: A Study...
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    when necessary, and the loyalty of married women to their husbands. The Strategikon noted that the Antes and Sclaveni were independent, refusing to be governed...
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    for throwing like a javelin, and also in hand to hand combat. In the Strategikon, supposedly written by the emperor Maurice, or in his time, the Franks...
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  • states the various uses and sources of spatha. Annales 12.35. Kekaumenos, Strategikon, "Oration of Admonition to an Emperor", para. 81 A professional site...
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    violent encounters. The Byzantine emperor Maurikios also emphasizes in his Strategikon that many of the Sassanid heavy cavalry did not carry spears, relying...
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  • bow-armed cavalry. By the time of Procopius's histories and Maurikios's Strategikon, the main effective field arm of Roman armies was cavalry, many of them...
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    lamellar armor to protect them from enemy archers. According to Maurice's Strategikon, a manual of war, the Persians made heavy use of archers that were the...
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    type of infantryman called a peltast (peltastēs) is described in the Strategikon, a 6th-century AD military treatise associated with the early Byzantine...
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  • tongues and lie with all of them? Maurice, Strategikon, ed. Dennis and Gamillscheg, 360;Maurice's Strategikon : handbook of Byzantine military strategy...
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    phoulkon in Greek), and were first described in the late 6th-century Strategikon. Roman legions were typically well-trained, and often used short stabbing-swords...
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    in the early sixth century and possibly by the Emperor Maurice in his Strategikon later that century. In the ninth century, the Frankish Table was incorporated...
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    first appear in medieval Byzantine sources in the 11th century, in the Strategikon of Kekaumenos and Anna Komnene's Alexiad, in the area of Thessaly. In...
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