06-21-2008, 09:10 PM
Sorry,
Should have added the research was on the early Byzantine period- internal politics stopped it being called late Roman. I looked at how different peoples conducted siege warfare in the period 300-650. I wasn't allowed to do it from a straight military point of view so it had to be on how peoples' backgrounds affected their ability to deal with sieges there had to be an angle as my boss kept saying! Wasn't my idea and I probably didn't really go into the socio-anthropological side of things as much as I should. Certainly my treatment of what counted as settled, barbarian, nomadic etc could do with severe revision.
Should have added the research was on the early Byzantine period- internal politics stopped it being called late Roman. I looked at how different peoples conducted siege warfare in the period 300-650. I wasn't allowed to do it from a straight military point of view so it had to be on how peoples' backgrounds affected their ability to deal with sieges there had to be an angle as my boss kept saying! Wasn't my idea and I probably didn't really go into the socio-anthropological side of things as much as I should. Certainly my treatment of what counted as settled, barbarian, nomadic etc could do with severe revision.
Stephen McCotter
