armoured pike-armed infantry. New formations were also devised to address the challenges posed by campaigning in this region. Overall, this work has a number of strengths. It provides a detailed analysis of the Byzantine army at a crucial juncture in its history, splicing an array of different sources and seeking to provide answers for important questions of interest to modern historians. As mentioned above, a clearer sense of narrative overview would have been desirable and at times the sources are too slight to enable the author to draw firm conclusions. Nevertheless, this work also offers several important findings; especially noteworthy are those concerning the crosscultural exchange of ideas and technologies. Theotokis is also careful to situate his discussion in the broader context of wider debates (from the classical era to the modern day) concerning the conduct of war.

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10 世纪拜占庭军事手册：三段论 Tacticorum

装甲长枪兵步兵。还设计了新的阵型来应对该地区竞选活动带来的挑战。总的来说，这项工作有许多优点。它详细分析了处于历史关键时刻的拜占庭军队，拼接了一系列不同的来源，并试图为现代历史学家感兴趣的重要问题提供答案。如上所述，更清晰的叙述概述是可取的，有时来源太少，无法使作者得出确切的结论。尽管如此，这项工作也提供了一些重要的发现；特别值得一提的是关于思想和技术的跨文化交流。