War in eleventh-century Byzantium / edited by Georgios Theotokis and Marek Meško

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Tradition and change in the perception of war in Byzantium -- 1 Between the old and the new, Byzantine battle tactics in the times of the Battle of Manzikert -- 2 "Such carnage in one place had not occurred before in Byzantium": the Battle of Hades (20 August 1057 CE) and its repercussions -- 3 Nomad influences in the Byzantine army under Alexios I Komnenos (1081-95) -- 4 Byzantine concepts of mercenaries in the eleventh century (988-1081) -- 5 From peacemaker to warrior: changes in imperial education, as illustrated in the eleventh-century Mirrors of Princes -- Part II Enemies and allies - Byzantium's 'military peripheries' -- 6 The enemy within: the crisis management of the centrifugal movements in the European provinces of the Byzantine Empire -- 7 Byzantium and the Rus' in the late tenth and eleventh centuries -- 8 Byzantine military campaigns against Serbian lands and Hungary in the second half of the eleventh century -- 9 Alexios I Komnenos's military strategy against the Normans, according to the Venetian chronicles -- 10 The Armenians in the Byzantine and Fatimid militaries in the eleventh century: similarities and differences in their operational roles -- 11 The art of war in Georgia in the eleventh century and the war with Byzantium -- Part III Technical aspects of the organization of the Byzantine army -- 12 Boots on the ground: Byzantine infantry in the eleventh century -- 13 The use of war-flails in the Bulgarian lands during the Byzantine conquest period - archaeological evidence from the northern borders of the empire -- 14 The army of Basil II in the wars against Samuil the Comitopoulos -- 15 Technical aspects of siege warfare in the eleventh century -- Bibliography -- Index.