IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 211: The Art of Generalship: Late Antique, Byzantine, and Chinese Ideals, II: Byzantine Ideals
Monday 6 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Cardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion & Culture, Cardiff University |
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Organiser: | Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
Moderator/Chair: | Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
Paper 211-a | Playing the Manly Man: Andreia and Generalship in Procopius's Gothic Wars (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Military History |
Paper 211-b | Managing Fortune: Virtue and Tyche in Byzantine Generalship (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Military History |
Abstract | This session is one of three on the art of generalship in Late Antique, Byzantine and Chinese culture. This session considers the quality of courage in Procopius's Gothic Wars and virtue and tyche in Byzantine generalship. |