Alexios I Komnenos In The Balkans 1081 1095

Author : Marek Meško
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031262964
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081–1095 written by Marek Meško and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​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.

Author : Marek Meško
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783031262982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081-1095 written by Marek Meško and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. .

Author : Alexēs G. K. Savvidēs
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042919112
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantino-Normannica written by Alexēs G. K. Savvidēs and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monograph, based on Greek, Latin and Old French primary sources (especially Anna Komnene's Alexiad and William of Apulia's Gesta Roberti Wiscardi), as well as on a wide range of secondary material available in several languages, attempts a detailed description of the first century of Byzantine-Norman relations, namely from the early 11th to the early 12th century, focusing on the first two Norman expeditions against Byzantium's Ionian and Helladic possessions (1081-1085 and 1107-1108). The diplomatic background related to the intricacies of Byzantium's external affairs in one of its most perplexed historical periods, is discussed throughout in detail, making use of pertinent research from recent decades when studies on Byzantine diplomatic history have progressed considerably. Of particular interest in this book is the prosopography of the period (both Byzantine and Western), while special attention is also given to matters of chronology as well as to the historical geography and topography of the locations involved in the Ionian Sea (Septinsular area), southern Albania and northwestern Hellas (especially Epeiros and western Macedonia). The background of the first two Norman invasions, delineating Byzantine-Norman contacts since the late 1030s until the eve of the first Norman campaign of 1080/81, is also treated by describing some interesting terms and connotations encountered in both Byzantine and Western sources.

Author : Florin Curta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture written by Florin Curta and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eutychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki written by Eutychia Kourkoutidou-Nikolaidou and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki" reveals the Byzantine face of the city to the modern visitor, through the marks stamped on it by 2,300 years of history. The text describes and evaluates all the most recent evidence for the Byzantine monuments of the city; together with the lavish illustrations, it offers an elegant account of the history of Byzantine civilization, enticing visitors along the major streets and narrow alleyways of the Upper town and introducing them, through the expertise of the specialist and the love of the admirer, to the enchantment of its unique monuments.

Author : Georgios Theotokis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839210
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108 written by Georgios Theotokis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length analysis of Norman military organisation in the Balkans: events, strategy, and tactics.

Author : Ioulia Kolovou
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526733021
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Komnene and the Alexiad written by Ioulia Kolovou and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kolovou . . . rescues Anna from the talons of misogynist historians and places her where she belongs as an extraordinary, but very human, woman.” —Beating Tsundoku A woman of extraordinary education and intellect, Anna Komnene was the only Byzantine female historian and one of the first and foremost historians in medieval Europe. Yet few people know of her and her extraordinary story. Subsequent historians and scholars have skewed the picture of Anna as an intellectual princess and powerful author. She has been largely viewed as an angry, bitter old woman, who greedily wanted a throne that did not belong to her. After being exiled to a convent, she composed the Alexiad, the history of the First Crusade and the Byzantine Emperor, Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118), her father. This book aims to present Anna Komnene—the fascinating woman, pioneer intellectual, and charismatic author—to the general public. Drawing on the latest academic research to reconstruct Anna’s life, personality and work, it moves away from the myth of Anna the conspirator and “power-hungry woman” which has been unfairly built around her over centuries of misrepresentation. It places Anna Komnene in the context of her own time: the ancient Greek colony and medieval Eastern Roman empire, known as Byzantium, with the magnificent city of Constantinople at its heart. At the forefront of an epic clash between East and West, this was a world renowned for its dazzling wealth, mystery and power games. This was a world with Anna Komnene directly at the center. “Well-written, well-researched, and an overall fascinating read . . . A brilliant addition to women’s history.” —Where There’s Ink There’s Paper

Author : Anna Komnene
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141904542
Total Pages : 1069 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alexiad written by Anna Komnene and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor through the eyes and words of his daughter which offers an unparalleled view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Author : Chedomil Mijatovich
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498003704
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantine written by Chedomil Mijatovich and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1892 Edition.

Author : Eric McGeer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004419403
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantium in the Time of Troubles written by Eric McGeer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes provides a contemporary narrative of the events and people that shaped the course of Byzantine history in a time military and political crisis.