4-512: The term Tactica or Taktika (Greek: Τακτικά ) can refer to: Two Byzantine military treatises on tactics and strategy: The treatises on administrative structure, court protocol and precedence written in the Byzantine Empire, collectively called " Taktika ". These were: Byzantine military manuals This article lists and briefly discusses the most important of many military treatises on military science produced in
8-410: A well-organized support system. A crucial element in the maintenance and spreading of this military knowledge, along with traditional histories, were the various treatises and military manuals. These continued a tradition of Greek-Hellenistic warfare and tacticians that stretched back to Xenophon and Aeneas Tacticus , late Hellenistic military manuals adapted and applied for the needs and realities of
12-550: The Byzantine Empire . The Eastern Roman Empire was, for much of its history, one of the major powers of the medieval world. Continuing the institutions of the Roman Empire, throughout its history it was assailed on all sides by various numerically superior enemies. The empire therefore maintained its highly sophisticated military system from antiquity, which relied on discipline, training, knowledge of tactics and
16-590: The Byzantine army, most of them deriving from the wide corpus of ancient Greek and late Hellenistic authors, especially Aelian , Onasander and Polyaenus , and to a lesser extent Aeneas and Arrian . Pioneering scholars in the modern study of Byzantine military manuals include Friedrich Haase (1808-67), Karl Konrad Müller (1854-1903), Rezső (Rudolf) Vári (1867-1940) and Alphonse Dain (1896-1964). A large corpus of Byzantine military literature survives. Characteristically Byzantine manuals were first produced in
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