Kekaumenos is the family name of the otherwise anonymous Byzantine author of the Strategikon, a manual on military and household affairs composed c. The Strategikon of Kekaumenos (Στρατηγικόν του Κεκαυμένου Cecaumeni Strategicon is a late 11th century Byzantine manual This article lists and briefly discusses the most important of a large number of treatises on Military science produced in the Byzantine Empire during its thousand-year 1078. He was apparently of Graeco-Armenian origin and the grandson of the dux of Hellas. Despite relevant suppositions, there exists no concrete evidence that he is the famous 11th century general Katakalon Kekaumenos, or his son.
Sources
- "Byzantine Siege Warfare in Theory and Practice" by Eric McGeer from The Medieval City under Siege
- Logos Nouthetetikos, or Oration of Admonition to an Emperor by William North
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