IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1713: Byzantine Warfare, III: Vertical Transition of Military Knowledge in Byzantium and Beyond
Thursday 6 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | De Re Militari: Society for Medieval Military History |
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Organiser: | Georgios Theotokis, Department of Italian Language & Literature, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens |
Moderator/Chair: | Ilana Krug, Department of History & Political Science, York College of Pennsylvania |
Paper 1713-a | Inspiring Soldiers in Early and Middle Byzantium: Finding the Link between Procopius and Syrianos Magistros (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History |
Paper 1713-b | 'Know your enemy … and do your best to avoid him': Evidence of Vertical Transmission of Military Knowledge in the Military Manuals (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History |
Paper 1713-c | Byzantine Military Manuals and Pedagogy: The Educational Strategies of Byzantine Tacticians (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History |
Abstract | The third session in De Re Militari's Byzantine warfare strand takes a different approach to the IMC's theme of 'networks and entanglements' to investigate the various ways in which military knowledge was transmitted both within the Byzantine Empire and between 'military cultures'. The first paper focuses on this transmission within the manuals that connected Byzantine tactics and methods across the centuries, and the second paper demonstrates how such 'vertical transmission' of military knowledge helps provide a sense of continuity of information within the military writings themselves. |