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Yayın Byzantine military rhetoric in the ninth century: A translation of the Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris(Taylor and Francis, 2021) Theotokis, Georgios; Sidiropoulos, Dimitrios; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Tarih Bölümü; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Tarih BölümüByzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century is the first English translation of the ninth-century Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris. This influential text offers a valuable insight into the warrior ethic of the period, the role of religion in the justification of war, and the view of other military cultures by the Byzantine elite. It also played a crucial role in the compilation of the tenth-century Taktika and Constantine VII’s harangues during a period of intense military activity for the Byzantine Empire on its eastern borders. Including a detailed commentary and critical introduction to the author and the structure of the text, this book will appeal to all those interested in Byzantine political ideology and military history.Yayın Maurice and his legacy: Strategike in the Byzantine military manuals(Taylor and Francis, 2024) Theotokis, Georgios; Hosler, John D.; Franke, Daniel P.Byzantine theorists and generals of the period up to the 10th and 11th centuries had well-established theoretical and practical ideas about warfare-from strategies and battle tactics to army formations, armament, logistical organisation, and tricks to deceive the enemy. These were detailed in a distinct literary genre of military handbooks that contained constitutions and treatises of a military nature, and whose immense value lies largely in their quality as repositories of (military) knowledge, and in their advisory and didactic use for up-and-coming army officers and civil servants. The aim of this chapter is to bring to the forefront the common ideas and considerations of the authors of these handbooks on key issues of strategy, and to show the chronological transmission of key strategic precepts in the history of the Byzantine empire. Furthermore, the chapter showcases the Byzantine ability to scrutinise and evaluate the tactics and fighting abilities of their enemies, and their eagerness to adapt their tactics to the requirements of each operational theatre, while it also refers to the delicate equilibrium between the Byzantines' appetite for war, and their willingness to use "other means," and how this formed part of the classical Roman military theoretical tradition picked up by their eastern Roman successors.Yayın The Campaign and Battle of Manzikert, 1071(ARC Humanities Press, 2024) Theotokis, Georgios; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Tarih BölümüThe Battle of Manzikert on August 26, 1071 is widely regarded as one of the most significant turning points in medieval history, frequently presented as the culmination of a Turco-Islamic assault upon the Byzantine bulwark of a Christian world struggling for survival. Emperor Romanus IV’s campaigns between 1068 and 1071 do, in many ways, represent the empire’s fightback against an enemy that for decades had penetrated deep into Asia Minor, its heartland and strategic bulwark. Yet Manzikert was not a disaster. This book examines the geopolitical background and the origins of the campaign that led to the battle, the main protagonists, and their strategies and battle tactics. It also evaluates the primary sources and the enduring legacy of the battle, for both the Greek and Turkish historiography of the twentieth century.Yayın Timeless principles of war and the vertical transmission of military knowledge through the Taktika(Brill, 2024) Theotokis, Georgios; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Tarih BölümüIt is my intention in this chapter to bring to the forefront the common ele¬ments and ideas that shaped the structure and content of what we have come to identify as military manuals, and to compare samples of this particular liter¬ary genre from different cultures (Rome, Byzantium, Islamic polities) in order to showcase the vertical (chronological) transmission of military knowledge between “military cultures”. My focus will be on the following common char¬acteristics: the advisory nature of these manuals; the writing during a period of intense socio-political instability for the State; the author trying to make sense of the socio-political turmoil and decline of his time; the trend to blame their contemporaries, not just for not consulting previous treatises on military matters, but for completely ignoring the study of the ‘science’ of war; the time¬less interest in the fighting abilities, ideology and institutional framework for war of their nation’s neighbours and enemies; the struggle to make sense of defeat; avoiding battle and to confirm the historians’ view that sieges, raids, skirmishes and ambushes dominated medieval and early modern warfare.Yayın War in eleventh-century Byzantium introduction(Routledge, 2021) Theotokis, Georgios; Mesko, Marek; İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi, Tarih Bölümü[No Abstract Available]
