Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081-1095

2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-26295-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 425 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

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

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

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.