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Book The De Re Militari of Vegetius

Download or read book The De Re Militari of Vegetius written by Christopher Allmand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegetius' late Roman text became a well-known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the growing interest in the text from the Carolingian world to the late Middle Ages, suggesting how the written word may have influenced the development of military practice in that period. While emphasising that success depended on a commander's ability to outwit the enemy with a carefully selected, well-trained and disciplined army, the De Re Militari inspired other unexpected developments, such as that of the 'national' army, and helped create a context in which the role of the soldier assumed greater social and political importance. Allmand explores the significance of the text and the changes it brought for those who accepted the implications of its central messages.

Book De Re Militari

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  • Author : Carla Sodini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book De Re Militari written by Carla Sodini and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogus librorum impressorum Bibliothecae Collegii B  Mariae Magdalenae in Academia Oxoniensi

Download or read book Catalogus librorum impressorum Bibliothecae Collegii B Mariae Magdalenae in Academia Oxoniensi written by Magdalen College (University of Oxford). Library and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Justinian s Digest

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  • Author : Tony Honoré
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2010-07-15
  • ISBN : 0199593302
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Justinian s Digest written by Tony Honoré and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects Honoré's groundbreaking work on the composition of Justinian's Digest, among the most important texts in Roman Law. It reconstructs the methodology of the Digest's composition, and examines the broader issues raised by the Digest's creation - how it was conceived by its compilers, its purpose, and its impact.

Book Roman Military Law

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  • Author : C. E. Brand
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2013-08-21
  • ISBN : 0292758170
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Roman Military Law written by C. E. Brand and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome was the law-giver for much of the modern world. She was also the greatest military power of antiquity, operating her military organization with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness throughout most of the then-known world. In view of the importance of both the legal and military aspects of the Roman Empire, an account of their combination in a system of disciplinary control for the Roman armies is of considerable significance to historians in both fields—and, in fact, to scholars in general. In Roman Military Law, C. E. Brand describes this system of control. Since a characterization of such a system can be made most meaningful only against a background of Roman constitutional government and in the light of ideologies current at the time, Brand follows his initial “Note on Sources” with a sketch of the contemporary Roman scene. This first section includes a discussion of the Roman constitution and an examination of Roman criminal law. The history of Rome, as a republic, principate, and empire, extended over a period of a thousand years, so any attempt to represent a generalized picture must be essentially a matter of extraction and condensation from the voluminous literature of the whole era. Nevertheless, from the fantastic evolution that is the history of Rome, Brand has been able to construct a more or less static historical mosaic that may be considered typically “Roman.” This comes into sharpest focus during the period of the Punic Wars, when the city and its people were most intensely Roman. The picture of the Roman armies is set into this basic framework, in chapters dealing with military organization, disciplinary organization, religion and discipline, and offenses and punishments. The final section of the book considers briefly the vast changes in Roman institutions that came about under the armies of the Empire, and then concludes with the Latin text and an English translation of the only known code of Roman military justice, promulgated sometime during the later Empire, preserved in Byzantine literature, and handed down to medieval times in Latin translations of Byzantine Greek law, which it has heretofore been confused.

Book Roman Warships

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  • Author : Michael Pitassi
  • Publisher : Boydell Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1843836106
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Roman Warships written by Michael Pitassi and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Roman naval development, drawing upon archaeological evidence, documentary accounts and visual representation.

Book Barbarians and Romans  A D  418 584

Download or read book Barbarians and Romans A D 418 584 written by Walter Goffart and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite intermittent turbulence and destruction, much of the Roman West came under barbarian control in an orderly fashion. Goths, Burgundians, and other aliens were accommodated within the provinces without disrupting the settled population or overturning the patterns of landownership. Walter Goffart examines these arrangements and shows that they were based on the procedures of Roman taxation, rather than on those of military billeting (the so-called hospitalitas system), as has long been thought. Resident proprietors could be left in undisturbed possession of their lands because the proceeds of taxation,rather than land itself, were awarded to the barbarian troops and their leaders.

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richard the Lionheart

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  • Author : David Miller
  • Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Release : 2013-10-17
  • ISBN : 1780227116
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book Richard the Lionheart written by David Miller and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest general of medieval times King Richard I's personal bravery on the battlefield won him the name 'Lionheart' but as David Miller reveals, his battles and campaigns demonstrate a brilliant grasp of strategy and tactics. The 'Lionheart' was no mere medieval 'head banger' but a thoughtful military leader, the only Crusader commander who managed to get an army to Palestine without going bankrupt in the process.

Book A Catalogue of Works on Music  Songs  Games  Sports  Military and Naval Sciences  Law  Diplomacy  Proverbs  Bibliography  Typography  Literary and Catalogues of Libraries

Download or read book A Catalogue of Works on Music Songs Games Sports Military and Naval Sciences Law Diplomacy Proverbs Bibliography Typography Literary and Catalogues of Libraries written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Works on Music  Songs  Games  Sports  Military and Naval Sciences  Law  Diplomacy  Trade  and Proverbs    Offered for Cash at the Affixed Net Prices by Bernard Quaritch  15 Piccadilly  W  London  August  1882

Download or read book Catalogue of Works on Music Songs Games Sports Military and Naval Sciences Law Diplomacy Trade and Proverbs Offered for Cash at the Affixed Net Prices by Bernard Quaritch 15 Piccadilly W London August 1882 written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Crusades

Download or read book The History of the Crusades written by Charles Mills and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent

Download or read book The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent written by Albert Howe Lybyer and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 1913 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author defines the character of the Ottoman state in general and then interprets the state through various lenses: the state interpreted as a slave family (that is, as a macrocosmic family which includes slaves), as a missionary enterprise and an educational system, as an army, as a nobility and a court, and as a government structure. The parallel ruling institution of Islam is also discussed, and then the formal Turkish state is compared and contrasted with the religious institution. The synthesis of each of these interpretations allows for a more complete and unique understanding of the function of the Turkish state. The appendices contain a translation of an important Italian source from 1534, as well as a pamphlet in Italian from 1537 by Junis Bey and Alvise Gritti. There is also a partial table of contents of Suleiman's edicts, a comparison of the Mogul government of India and Suleiman's government, and an appendix for the origins of Ottoman government ideas and a summary of it in the sixteenth century.

Book Cicero in Basel

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  • Author : Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2024-11-18
  • ISBN : 3111454649
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Cicero in Basel written by Cédric Scheidegger Laemmle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Cicero's presence in the cultural history of Basel - from the city's foundation to the heyday of humanist print culture, to the cultural politics of the modern day. Written by scholars working from different academic traditions and organised in four sections, they trace a broad range of engagements with Cicero in Basel across time, thus offering the rudiments of a localised form of reception history: "Ciceronian Foundations" focuses on Cicero's role in the city's (and her university's) foundation myths; "Editions and Commentaries" centres on the Ciceronian editions and commentaries in the heyday of humanist printing culture; "Discussions and Engagements" situates his reception in the intellectual currents that define humanist Basel - from stylistic and literary debates to the controversies of the theologians; lastly, "Scholarship and Education" explores the entanglements of academic and civic life that come to define Cicero's place in Basel from the 17th century. For all their diversity, the contributions are united in their aim to contribute both to the study of Ciceronian reception and to the cultural history and development of Basel in its European context.

Book Catalogue of the Libraries of the Learned Dr  James Foster  Couns  Hamilton  Late of LIncolns Inn  Dr  Cromwell Mortimer    and Many Others Containing the Largest and Most Curious Collection of Books  Manuscripts  Prints and Drawings

Download or read book Catalogue of the Libraries of the Learned Dr James Foster Couns Hamilton Late of LIncolns Inn Dr Cromwell Mortimer and Many Others Containing the Largest and Most Curious Collection of Books Manuscripts Prints and Drawings written by and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: