Military diasporas : building of empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE-1500 CE) / edited by Georg Christ, Patrick Sänger, and Mike Carr.

"Military Diasporas proposes a new research approach to analyse the role of foreign military personnel as composite and partly imagined para-ethnic groups. These groups not only buttressed a state or empire's military might but crucially connected, policed and administered (parts of) realms as a tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Christ, Georg (Editor)
Sänger, Patrick (Editor)
Carr, Mike, 1984- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Subjects:
Military history, Ancient.
Foreign enlistment > Europe > History > To 1500.
Foreign enlistment > Middle East > History > To 1500.
Military art and science > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Foreign enlistment.
Military art and science > Medieval.
Europe.
Middle East.
To 1500
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:viii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Building of empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE-1500 CE)
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Military Diasporas in an Achaemenid Perspective / Hilmar Klinkott, Kiel
  • Immigrant Soldiers and Ptolemaic Policy in Hellenistic Egypt (Late Fourth Century-30 BCE): Reflections on a Military Diaspora and Its Components / Patrick Sänger
  • Syrian Recruits and Units in the Roman Army: A Military Diaspora? / Nathanael Andrade
  • Participants in the Emperor's Glory: The Statues for Generals in Late Antique Rome / Mariana Bodnaruk
  • The Persian and Arab Occupations of Egypt in the Seventh Century / Lajos Berkes
  • Alexios, Emperor of the Diasporas? Komnenian Revolt of 1081 and the Foreign Military Groups in Byzantium / Roman Shliakhtin
  • The Catalan Company as a Military Diasporic Group in Medieval Greece / Mike Carr & Alasdair Grant
  • Christian Expatriates in Muslim Lands: The Many Roles of Aragonese Mercenaries in Medieval Northern Africa / Nikolas Jaspert
  • Professional Turks or Military Diaspora? The Mamluks and Dynamics of Ethnicity in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria / Julien Loiseau
  • Stradioti: A Balkan Military Diaspora in Early Modern Europe / Nicholas C. J. Pappas
  • Military Auxiliaries in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Hungary: Nomads vs. Crusader Knights / László Veszprémy
  • Medieval Queens and the Diaspora of Escort, Conquest, the Crusades and Military Orders / Christopher Mielke
  • Encountering the Heathen on the Baltic Frontier: The Order of the Sword Brethren and the Teutonic Order in Thirteenth-Century Livoniai / Verena Schenk zu Schweinsberg
  • A Military Diaspora in Medieval Christendom: The Teutonic Orderii / Mark Whelan
  • The Cold Winter Campaign of 1511: Swiss Military Autonomy and Heteronomy during the Transalpine Campaigns /Anna Katharina Weltert and Georg Christ.