This book studies the Sylloge Tacticorum, an important tenth-century Byzantine military manual. The text is used as a case study to connect military manuals wit

What do the mysterious Roman author Vegetius, the Byzantine emperor Leo VI, and the Chinese general Li Jing all have in common? They are three of the dozens of

The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number

This book discusses the role Western military books and their translations played in 17th-century Russia. By tracing how these translations were produced, distr

This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse tex