IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1613: Byzantine Warfare, II: Military Influences between Byzantium and Its Neighbours

Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	De Re Militari: Society for Medieval Military History
Organiser:	Georgios Theotokis, Department of Italian Language & Literature, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Moderator/Chair:	Georgios Theotokis, Department of Italian Language & Literature, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Paper 1613-a	Steppe Influences on Byzantine Warfare and Military Organisation, 800-1100 (Language: English) Leif Inge Ree Petersen, Institutt for historiske studier, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Trondheim Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History
Paper 1613-b	Military Influences in Iconography: 14th-Century Military Equipment in the Frescoes of the Church of St Mary on Prespa Lake, Albania (Language: English) Raffaele D'Amato, Laboratorio delle antiche Province Danubiane, Università degli Studi di Ferrara Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History
Paper 1613-c	Byzantine Influences on Knights Templars' Castles: Revisiting T. E. Lawrence's Theory (Language: English) Lorenzo Mercuri, Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religioni Arte Spettacolo, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' Index terms: Architecture - General, Crusades, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Military History
Abstract	The second session in De Re Militari's strand on Byzantine warfare continues to address the IMC's theme of 'networks and entanglements', focusing on how interactions between the Byzantine Empire and others led to shared influences in a military sphere. The three papers, covering the entire chronological span of the empire, discuss the specific results of such influences, and their manifestation in the Byzantine military machine, ranging from cavalry methods and equipment, to tactics and strategy, to armor and other military garments and weapons.