Κεκαυμένου 'Στρατηγικόν': το Βυζάντιο στον 11ο αι.

Although not exactly a practical handbook for the military or full of strategies and theoretical treatises on war, Kekaumenos’ Strategikon is a text unique in its kind because of its social context. Its uniqueness does not stop here. It provides an image of public and private Byzantine life from within. It is a living testimony to historiography, which tries to draw social information about this very sensitive period of Byzantine life. The 11th century is a century of turmoil and gradual loss of territory for the Byzantine Empire. The gradual shrinkage of the Empire and insecurity of the people living in its territories is evident throughout the text.