Publisher's Synopsis
A comparative analysis of Byzantine, Sasanian and Muslim armies and their impact on state resources. Contributions discuss the organization and financing of the army in the late Roman state, the transformations and continuities of the late Sasanid state and with authority and armies in the early Muslim state. Thus, the volume brings together perspectives from neighbouring fields, presents military issues in an intercultural manner and assembles important pieces of knowledge in a comprehensive manner.
"Interdisciplinary enterprises such as [this] volume ... are to be applauded for getting us down to earth." (Patricia Crone)
The four-volume set comprises:
Volume 1: Problems in the Literary Source Material.
Volume 2: Land Use and Settlement Patterns.
Volume 3: States, Resources and Armies.
Volume 4: Elites Old and New
