War and warfare in late antiquity

"This two volume publication explores the key factors determining the course and outcome of war in Late Antiquity. Volume 8.1 includes a detailed view of strategic and tactical issues and eight comprehensive bibliographic essays, which provide an overview of the literature. In volume 8.2, thematic papers examine strategy and intelligence, fortifications and siege warfare, weaponry and equipment, literary sources and topography, and civil war, while papers focused on particular geographic regions home in on war and warfare in the Western Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries, and the Balkans and the Eastern frontier in the 4th to 7th centuries AD."Page 4 de la couverture.

Volume 1. Foreword / Alexander Sarantis and Neil Christie -- Waging war in Late Antiquity / Alexander Sarantis. Bibliographic Essays. War in Late Antiquity : secondary works, literary sources and material evidence / Conor Whately -- Military equipment and weaponry : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Tactics : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Organisation and life in the Late Roman military : a bibliographic essay / Conor Whately -- Strategy, diplomacy and frontiers : a bibliographic essay / Conor Whately -- Fortifications in the West : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis with Neil Christie -- Fortifications in Africa : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis -- Fortifications in the East : a bibliographic essay / Alexander Sarantis.

Volume 2. Strategy and Intelligence. Information and war : some comments on defensive strategy and information in the Middle Byzantine period (ca. A.D. 660-1025) / John Haldon -- Fortifications and Siege Warfare. Fortifications of the Late Roman East : from urban walls to long walls / James Crow -- Siege warfare and counter-siege tactics in Late Antiquity (ca. 250-640) / Michael Whitby -- Weaponry and Equipment. Late…