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Military Recruitment as a Means of Pacification of the Byzantine Periphery: Tzani in the Imperial Army (6th Century)

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2022
Introduction. The article is devoted to the problem of integration of territories inhabited by the Tzani into the Eastern Roman empire in the 6th century. They were a people who lived in the Pontine Mountains during Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
Andrey Nazarov
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Volunteers in the Late Byzantine Army: to the Question of Thelematarioi

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2017
This paper focuses on the problem of a volunteer’s service at the late Byzantium military organization. The goal of the present research work is to determine the functional significance of the thelematarioi term.
Vladimir A. Zolotovskiy
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Single Combats and the Ethics of Military Leadership in the Early Byzantine Army [PDF]

Античная древность и средние века, 2019
The article is devoted to the tradition of single combats in the Early Byzantine army. The spread of such way of ascertaining the superiority was connected with the change in the principles of the Roman imperial army’s recruitment.
Andrey Nazarov
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History of the Byzantine Army and Military Art in M.Ja. Sjuzjumov’s Unpublished Works of the 1930–1940s

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2018
Introduction. November of 2018 is marked by the 125th anniversary of famous Russian Soviet Byzantinist Mikhail Jakovlevich Sjuzjumov (1893-1982). Among his unpublished works, the most interesting one is the writing Byzantine State and Byzantine Culture ...
Anton S. Mokhov, Karina R. Kapsalykova
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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the KATÁFRAKTOI in the Byzantine Army

Studia Ceranea, 2012
This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti ...
Michał Wojnowski
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The Byzantine Army in 626–628 AD: Near East Frontier and Armenian Provinces

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2018
Two aspects of the Byzantine military organization in 626–628 AD were considered: the role and status of Armenian ethnic units within the Byzantine army and the measures of Emperor Heraclius for reestablishment the Byzantine defense system in the Near ...
E.A. Mekhamadiev
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Byzantine Army during the Religious-Political Crisis (775–820)

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2015
Following the death of Constantine V in 775, his successors refused the military policy of the Isaurian dynasty which led to a number of adverse consequences. The army got involved into the confrontation between religious and political groups.
Anton Sergeevich Mokhov
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Notes on the Numbers and Organization of the Ninth-Century Byzantine Army

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2004
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Warren T. Treadgold
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The byzantine masculinity at war: An approach on the manliness of the army in the Middle Byzantine Era [PDF]

Byzantion Nea Hellas, 2020
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Eilif Thorgilsson and the Mercenary Wends in the Byzantine Army in the Second Half of the 1020s

Античная древность и средние века
This article attempts to define the ethnic background of the mercenary troop of certain “Vandals,” who, according to the Annales Barenses, were a part of the Byzantine army under the command of Orestes who acted in Southern Italy in the second half of ...
Kemran Memetovich Karashayski
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