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 (redirect from Strategikon)
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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Eastern Roman army (section Maurikios' Strategikon)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Historia ecclesiastica by Ordericus Vitalis Játvarðar Saga Laxdœla saga Strategikon of Kekaumenos by Kekaumenos Buckler, Georgina. Anna Komnena: A Study...
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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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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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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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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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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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(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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their settlements "Catuns". Byzantine writer Kekaumenos, author of the Strategikon (1078), writes about a leader, Nikulitsa, who is given command by Basil...
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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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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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: 316 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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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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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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Martyrs of Agaunum. The Eastern Roman Emperor Maurice forbade in his Strategikon the decimatio and other brutal punishments. According to him, punishments...
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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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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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