Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781789254068
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection. These scholarships have attracted ancient writers and generals and nowadays historians, archaeologists and researchers poliorcetics. Military historiography and ancient manuals are well familiar from the Classical period throughout the Hellenistic great battlefields until the end of the Middle Ages, the chronological scope of this codex.