Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081–1095

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Marek Meško, Marek Mesko, Marek Meko, Marek Me¿ko

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This book provides a new military history of Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos's campaigns in the Balkans, during the first fourteen years of his rule. While the tactics and manoeuvres Alexios used against Robert Guiscard's Normans are relatively well-known, his strategy in dealing with Pecheneg and Cuman adversaries in the region has received less attention in historical scholarship. This book provides a much-need synthesis of these three closely linked campaigns – often treated as discrete events – revealing a surprising coherence in Alexios' response, and explores the position of Byzantium's army and navy on the eve of the First Crusade.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-06-15
Mått148 x 210 x 29 mm
Vikt683 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
Antal sidor425
Upplaga2023
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031262951

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“This is a thorough and deeply-researched book that ultimately convinces. The step-by-step study of the chronology and events do much to shed light on these crucial decades and Meško makes use of a vast array of secondary literature in a huge range of languages … . This book is anything but niche, and will serve as an exemplar of how to write pre-industrial military history at the operational level.” (Lucas R. McMahon, International Journal of Military History and Historiography, Vol. 45 (1), 2025)