TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meško, Marek
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081-1095
T3  - New approaches to Byzantine history and culture
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Cham
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - History, Military
KW  - History
KW  - Balkan Peninsula
AB  - 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 Meko is an assistant professor at the University of Hradec Kralove, Institute of History, Czech Republic
SN  - 9783031262968
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3629547
LA  - English
N1  - Marek Meško
ID  - 1862655928
ER  -