Contents:
page IX Abbreviations
1 Introduction
THE ORGANISATION OF THE SUPREME MILITARY COMMAND
The Middle of the 10th Century - 1025
9 I. The Distribution of Military Functions and the Characteristics of Command Authorities
9 Regular and extraordinary military authorities
13 Characteristics of the most senior command authorities
13 Strategos tou thematos - Domestikos ton Scholon - Monostrategos - Strategos autokrator
19 II. Shaping the System of the Supreme Military Command (The Middle of the 10 Century - 976)
20 The case of the Phokas family: an example of the privatisation of a function
26 Pretenders
30 The domestikos under control
31 Stratopedarches instead of domestikos
32 The limitation of authorities
33 The stratopedarches and the stratelates
38 The order and question of precedence
39 Eunuch as domestikos?
43 The chain of command in the Byzantine-Russian war
45 III. The Organisation of the Supreme Command in the Time of Basil II
45 Stratopedarches, "dictator" or strategos autokrator
48 The domestikos ton Scholon of the East
50 The organisation of the supreme military command in the Balkan war (976-1018)
52 Nikephoros Ouranos - David Areianites - Domestikos ton Scholon of the West, Leo Melissenos
61 IV. General Characteristics and the Significance of the Reform of the Institutions of the Supreme Command
THE ORGANISATION OF PROVINCIAL (FRONTIER) AUTHORITY
On the Threshold Between the 10th and the 11th Century
75 The Taktikon Escorial as a source for the provincial administration
83 THE REFORM OF PROVINCIAL AUTHORITY IN THE EAST
84 I. The Creation of a New Eastern Frontier
84 The new type of the organisation of authority: the armeniaka themata
87 The frontier zones according to the Taktikon Escorial
97 II. The New Structure of Military Authority on the Eastern Frontier
97 THE DOUKATON OF ANTIOCH
97 Formation
99 The significance and competences of the doux of Antioch
100 Indirect authority over Antioch - The domain of military authority of the doux of Antioch - The doux of Antioch and the domestikos ton Scholon of the East
107 Military-territorial structure of the doukate of Antioch
115 The hierarchical structure of military authority in the doukate of Antioch
117 Representatives of civil authority in Antioch and its region
120 THE DOUX OF MESOPOTAMIA: Formation and authorities
123 THE DOUX OF CHALDIA: Formation and authorities
127 THE REFORM OF PROVINCIAL AUTHORITY IN THE WEST
128 I. The First Breakthrough to the Interior of the Balkans: The Epoch of John Tzimiskes
128 Thrace and Macedonia
132 The first breakthrough into the interior of the Balkans (971)
133 The reorganisation of the frontier belt in the Balkans according to the TE
136 The characteristics of the first Byzantine reoccupation of the Balkan
141 On the problem of the Balkan agglomerates
142 The rank and importance of the Balkan frontier functionaries
146 II. The Achievements of Tzimiskes' Reform: The Epoch of Basil II
146 Reconstruction: the frontier belt in the decade 976-986
148 The role and importance of the doux of Thessalonike in the 976-1018 war
157 The military organisation of Byzantine Macedonia: The doux of Adrianople or the strategos of Philippoupolis (976-1018)?
164 III. The Specific Features of Military Administration in Byzantine Italy
DIGRESSIONS FROM THE THEMATIC SYSTEM
173 I. The New Conception of the Byzantine Borders (The Epoch of Phokas and Tzimiskes)
173 The new type of strategis
177 Doukes and katepano: the creation of large military systems
181 II. The Administration of Basil II
181 Developments in the East
181 Iberia - Vaspurakan - The poleis on the Euphrates
185 An eastern model on the example of the Balkans
185 The system of themes-fortresses - Command centres in the Balkans - The demographic problem
191 Basil's military organisation in the Balkans
192 Bulgaria - Paradounavon - Sirmium - The functioning of the Balkan command centres
206 The affirmation and domination of civil functionaries (Third digression from the classical thematic system)
211 Index