Meško / Mesko Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081–1095

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-26296-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 425 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meško, Marek

Mesko, Marek

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction .- 2. Army and Navy in Eleventh-Century Byzantium .- 3. Alexios I Komnenos .- 4. War against the Normans (1081–1085) .- 5. War against the Pechenegs (1083–1091) .- 6. Kuman Invasion (1095) .- 7. Synthesis .- 8. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Marek Meško is an assistant professor at the University of Hradec Kralove, Institute of History, Czech Republic.