2 In Search of Equilibrium: Byzantium and the Northern Barbarians, 400–800

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps and Illustrations viii
4. Preface ix
5. 1 Later Roman Grand Strategy: The Fortification of the urbes of Gaul 1
6. 2 In Search of Equilibrium: Byzantium and the Northern Barbarians, 400–800 37
7. 3 Evolving English Strategies during the Viking Wars 69
8. 4 Norman Conquests: A Strategy for World Domination? 91
9. 5 The Papacy and the Political Consolidation of the Catalan Counties, c.1060–1100: A Case Study in Political Strategy 103
10. 6 Alfonso VII of León-Castile in Face of the Reformulation of Power in al-Andalus, 1145–1157: An Essay in Strategic Logic 119
11. 7 The Treaties between the Kings of León and the Almohads within the Leonese Expansion Strategy, 1157–1230 151
12. 8 A Strategy of Total War? Henry of Livonia and the Conquest of Estonia, 1208–1227 187
13. 9 The English Longbow, War, and Administration 215
14. Contributors 227
15. Journal of Medieval Military History 1477–545X 229
16. De Re Militari and the Journal of Medieval Military History 235