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General resources

• Martindale, John R.; Jones, A. H. M.; Morris, John, eds. (1971–1992). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (3 vols.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
• Lilie, Ralph-Johannes; Ludwig, Claudia; Pratsch, Thomas; Zielke, Beate (1998–2013). Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (in German). Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter.
• Trapp, Erich; Beyer, Hans-Veit; Walther, Rainer; Sturm-Schnabl, Katja; Kislinger, Ewald; Leontiadis, Ioannis; Kaplaneres, Sokrates (1976–1996). Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 3-7001-3003-1.

• A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Political history

• Bury, John Bagnell (1958), History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 1, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 978-0486203980
• Bury, John Bagnell (1958), History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian, Volume 2, Courier Dover Publications, ISBN 978-0486203997
• Bury, John Bagnell (1912), A History of the Eastern Roman Empire from the Fall of Irene to the Accession of Basil I (A.D. 802–867), London, United Kingdom: Macmillan and Company
• Haldon, John F. (1999). Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565-1204. London: University College London Press (Taylor & Francis Group). ISBN 978-1-85728-495-9.
• Treadgold, Warren T. (1997), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-2630-6
• Angold, Michael (1997). The Byzantine Empire, 1025–1204: A Political History (Second Edition). Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-29468-4.
• Brand, Charles M. (1968), Byzantium confronts the West, 1180–1204, Harvard University Press
• Fine, John Van Antwerp (1991), The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3
• Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994), The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0472082605
• Nicol, Donald MacGillivray (1993). The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43991-6.

Military history

• Sabin, Philip; van Wees, Hans; Whitby, Michael, eds. (2008), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, Volume 1: Greece, the Hellenistic world and the rise of Rome, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-857796
• Sabin, Philip; van Wees, Hans; Whitby, Michael, eds. (2007), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, Volume 2: Rome from the Late Republic to the Late Empire, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-782746
• Erdkamp, Paul, ed. (2007), A Companion to the Roman Army, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4051-2153-8
• Goldsworthy, Adrian (2003), The Complete Roman Army, Thames & Hudson Ltd., ISBN 978-0-500-05124-5
• Haldon, John F. (2001). The Byzantine Wars. Tempus. ISBN 978-0752417950.
• Bartusis, Mark C. (1997). The Late Byzantine Army: Arms and Society 1204–1453. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1620-2.
• Birkenmeier, John W. (2002). The Development of the Komnenian Army: 1081-1180. Boston, Massachusetts: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-11710-5.
• Treadgold, Warren T. (1995), Byzantium and Its Army, 284–1081, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, ISBN 978-0-8047-3163-8

Naval history

• Ahrweiler, Hélène (1966), Byzance et la mer: La Marine de Guerre, la politique et les institutions maritimes de Byzance aux VIIe–XVe siècles (in French), Paris: Presses universitaires de France
• Casson, Lionel (1991). The Ancient Mariners: Seafarers and Sea Fighters of the Mediterranean in Ancient Times. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691014777.
• Casson, Lionel (1995). Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801851308.
• Gardiner, Robert, ed. (2004), The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels since pre-Classical Times, Conway Maritime Press, ISBN 978-0851779553
• Pryor, John H.; Jeffreys, Elizabeth M. (2006), The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ: The Byzantine Navy ca. 500–1204, Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-9004151970

Specific periods and topics

• Dennis, George T. (1984). Maurice's Strategikon. Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1772-8.
• Dennis, George T. (1985), Three Byzantine Military Treatises, Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, ISBN 978-0-88402-140-7
• Kaegi, Walter Emil (1981). Byzantine Military Unrest, 471–843: An Interpretation. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert. ISBN 978-90-256-0902-3.
• Kollias, Taxiarchis G. (1988). Byzantinische Waffen: ein Beitrag zur byzantinischen Waffenkunde von den Anfangen bis zur lateinischen Eroberung (in German). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-14710.
• Kurkjian, Vahan (1958) A History of Armenia, Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, New York, OCLC 889896040.
• Hannibal's War - Lazenby
• Strässle, Paul Meinrad (2006). Krieg und Kriegführung in Byzanz: die Kriege Kaiser Basileios' II. gegen die Bulgaren (976-1019) (in German). Böhlau Verlag. ISBN 978-3-412-17405-7.
• Sullivan, Dennis F. (2000). Siegecraft: Two Tenth-century Instructional Manuals by "Heron of Byzantium". Dumbarton Oaks. ISBN 978-0884022701.
• Haldon, John F., ed. (1990). Constantine Porphyrogenitus: Three Treatises on Imperial Military Expeditions. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ISBN 978-3-7001-1778-0.
• Armenian Historical Sources