War And Warfare In Late Antiquity

Timetable

Classes will be offered onThursday at 9.00, room 3.129.

Module aim (aims)

The aim of the course is to broaden knowledge of students in the history of wars and military in late antiquity with regard to social and military history.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Basic knowledge of ancient history

Syllabus

Introductory classes

Roman military equipment and tactics

Warfare in times of Diocletian and Constantine

Vegetius on the Decay of the Roman Army

Decline of the Roman Empire

Barbarian Warfare

Justinian reconquest of the west (Africa)

Justinian reconquest of the west (Italy)

Syrianos Magister

Last great wars with Persia

Slavs and Avars in VI century

Strategicon

Naval warfare

Warfare and a city

War and Society in late antiquity

Ancient Psychological Warfare

Live in Roman Military Camp

Reading list

• Adams, J. P., Logistics of the Roman Imperial Army: Major Campaigns on the Eastern Front in the First Three Centuries AD (Detroit, Mich., 1976).
• Elton, H., Aspects of Defence in Roman Europe, AD 350-500’, (Oxford, 1990).
• The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, ed. P. Sabin H. van Wees, Cambridge 2008, 198-232.
• A Companion to the Roman Army, ed. P. Erdkamp, Oxford 2007.
• Goldsworthy A., The Complete Roman army, London 2003.
• Haldon J., Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204, London 1999.
• Oakeshott E., The Archaeology of Weapons Arms and Armor from Praehistory to the Age of Chivalry, New York 1994.