Military Diasporas: Building of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 Bce-1500 Ce)

ISBN-13: 9781032157573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 376 str.

Christ, Georg

Opis

Military Diasporas proposes a new research approach to analyse the role of foreign military personnel as composite and partly imagined para-ethnic groups.

Spis treści

0. Introduction  1. Military Diasporas in an Achaemenid Perspective  2. Immigrant Soldiers and Ptolemaic Policy in Hellenistic Egypt (Late Fourth Century–30 BCE): Reflections on a Military Diaspora and Its Components  3. Syrian Recruits and Units in the Roman Army: A Military Diaspora?  4. Participants in the Emperor’s Glory: The Statues for Generals in Late Antique Rome  5. The Persian and Arab Occupations of Egypt in the Seventh Centur  6. Alexios, Emperor of the Diasporas? Komnenian Revolt of 1081 and the Foreign Military Groups in Byzantium  7. The Catalan Company as a Military Diasporic Group in Medieval Greece  8. Christian Expatriates in Muslim Lands: The Many Roles of Aragonese Mercenaries in Medieval Northern Africa  9. Professional Turks or Military Diaspora? The Mamluks and Dynamics of Ethnicity in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria  10. Stradioti: A Balkan Military Diaspora in Early Modern Europe  11. Military Auxiliaries in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Hungary: Nomads vs. Crusader Knights  12. Medieval Queens and the Diaspora of Escort, Conquest, the Crusades and Military Orders  13. Encountering the Heathen on the Baltic Frontier: The Order of the Sword Brethren and the Teutonic Order in Thirteenth-Century Livonia  14. A Military Diaspora in Medieval Christendom: The Teutonic Order  15. The Cold Winter Campaign of 1511: Swiss Military Autonomy and Heteronomy during the Transalpine Campaigns