Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081–1095
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-26295-1 (ISBN)
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.
Marek Meško is an assistant professor at the University of Hradec Kralove, Institute of History, Czech Republic.
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.
This is a well-structured and well-researched monograph which provides new insights into the military challenges the empire faced in the eriod 1081-1095 and focuses on the personality, motivations, political and martial qualities of Alexios I Komnenos. (Savvas Kyriakidis, The Byzantine Review, Vol. 6, 2024)
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 Me ko 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)
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.06.2023 |
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| Reihe/Serie | New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | XVI, 425 p. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 703 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Schlagworte | Alexiad • Byzantine Empire • Cumans • Normans • Pechenegs |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-26295-6 / 3031262956 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-26295-1 / 9783031262951 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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