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Byzantine War Ideology Between Roman Imperial Concept And Christian Religion

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Byzantine War Ideology Between Roman Imperial Concept And Christian Religion

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-7307-6
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Johannes Koder, Ioannis Stouraitis

Preliminaries

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Johannes Koder, Ioannis Stouraitis

Table of Contents

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Foreword

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Byzantine Approaches to Warfare (6th – 12th centuries). An Introduction

9

Walter E. Kaegi

The Heraclians and Holy War

17

Panagiotis Antonopoulos

Emperor Constans II’s Intervention in Italy and its Ideological Significance

27

Warren Treadgold

Opposition to Iconoclasm as Grounds for Civil War

33

Olof Heilo

The Holiness of the Warrior: Physical and Spiritual Power in the Borderland between Byzantium and Islam

41

Athanasios Markopoulos

The Ideology of War in the Military Harangues of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos

47

Stergios Laitsos

War and Nation-building in Widukind of Corvey’s Deeds of the Saxons

57

Ioannis Stouraitis

Conceptions of War and Peace in Anna Comnena’s Alexiad

69

Evangelos Chrysos

1176 – A Byzantine Crusade?

81

Theodora Papadopoulou

Niketas Choniates and the Image of the Enemy after the Latin Capture of Constantinople

87

Efstratia Synkellou

Reflections on Byzantine War Ideology in Late Byzantium

99

Christos G. Makrypoulias

Civilians as Combatants in Byzantium: Ideological versus Practical Considerations

109

Athina Kolia-Dermitzaki

"Holy War" In Byzantium Twenty Years Later: A Question of Term Definition and Interpretation

121

Johannes Koder, Ioannis Stouraitis

Selected Bibliography, Index, Verzeichnis der Autoren

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