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Sieges and Siegecraft, Byzantine

Sullivan, Denis F. Bagnall, Roger S ; Huebner, Sabine R ; Champion, Craige B ; Brodersen, Kai ; Erskine, Andrew

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2012, p.1-2

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Sieges and Siegecraft, Byzantine
Autor: Sullivan, Denis F.
Bagnall, Roger S ; Huebner, Sabine R ; Champion, Craige B ; Brodersen, Kai ; Erskine, Andrew
Assuntos: Byzantium
É parte de: The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 2012, p.1-2
Descrição: Methods of conducting sieges did not change radically from the demise of the Roman Empire to Byzantium. Sapping the walls, use of rams, siege towers, and ladders continued, although torsion artillery was replaced by the traction trebuchet. Evidence for sieges is found primarily from historians, although military manuals and archaeology add additional information.
A distinction between early “Byzantine” and late Roman siegecraft is artificial. Most methods remained similar, the major innovation being the introduction of the traction trebuchet (and perhaps the eventual demise of torsion artillery); there may have been an increasing emphasis on use of deception and treachery as opposed to full‐scale blockades and assaults. Military manuals provide theoretical sets of recommendations, and historians and other writers offer details of actual sieges, often influenced by earlier literature, but not therefore necessarily historically untrustworthy.
Editor: Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Idioma: Inglês

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