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    This document provides information about a new book that reconstructs the military campaigns of the Roman emperors Aurelian and Probus during the third century crisis. The book provides unprecedented detail about their forces, strategies, and tactics based on military manuals from the period. It explains how Aurelian and Probus helped ensure the survival of the Roman Empire against many external enemies, including Goths, Alamanni, Franks, Sarmatians, Palmyrans, Persians, and usurpers.

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    DR ILKKA SYVÄNNE gained his This is a narrative military history of the

    doctorate in history in 2004 from emperors Lucius Domitius Aurelianus


    Tampere University in his native Finland.
    RECONSTRUCTS THE MILITARY CAMPAIGNS (‘Aurelian’, reigned 270-275) and Marcus
    He was vice chairman of the Finnish OF THE PERIOD IN UNPRECEDENTED DETAIL Aurelius Probus (276-282) which also
    Society for Byzantine Studies from 2007
    to 2016. In 2016 he was nominated as an
    Affiliated Professor of the University of
    • includes the other reigns between the
    years 268 and 285. It shows how these
    two remarkable emperors were chiefly
    Haifa. His previous books include the first
    EXPLAINS HOW AURELIAN AND responsible for the Empire surviving and
    three volumes (of seven planned) of The PROBUS ENSURED THE ROMAN EMPIRE emerging largely intact from a period of
    Military History of Late Rome; Caracalla: intense crisis. It was Aurelian who first
    SURVIVED THE ‘THIRD CENTURY CRISIS’
    A Military Biography (2017); and The united the breakaway regions, including
    Reign of Emperor Gallienus (2019) all by MORE OR LESS INTACT Zenobia’s Palmyra, and it was Probus who
    Pen & Sword.
    • then secured his achievements.
    The reigns of Aurelian and Probus
    have been subjected to many studies, but
    THOROUGH ANALYSIS OF FORCES,
    none of these have approached the extant
    STRATEGY AND TACTICS WITH PARTICULAR material purely from the point of view of

    EMPHASIS ON THE MILITARY MANUALS military analysis. Most importantly, the


    previous historians have not exploited the
    AND THEORY OF THE TIME
    •
    analytical opportunities provided by the
    military treatises that describe the strategy
    and tactics of the period Roman army. It

    NARRATES ROMAN CAMPAIGNS is thanks to this new methodology that


    Ilkka Syvänne has been able to reconstruct
    AGAINST A WIDE RANGE OF ENEMIES: the military campaigns of these two soldier
    GOTHS, ALAMANNI, FRANKS, SARMATIANS/ emperors and their other contemporaries
    Jacket design: Dominic Allen
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