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020 $a9781843839217
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050 4 $aDR39$b.T44 2014
082 04 $a949.6/02$223
100 1 $aTheotokis, Georgios.
245 10 $aNorman campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108 /$cGeorgios Theotokis.
264 1 $aWoodbridge, Suffolk, UK ;$aRochester, NY :$bThe Boydell Press,$c2014.
300 $a262 pages :$billustration, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aWarfare in history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Primary sources and the problems of military history -- Norman military institutions in southern Italy in the eleventh century -- The Byzantine army of the tenth and eleventh centuries -- The Byzantine naval forces in the tenth and eleventh centuries: organization and tactics -- The establishment of the Normans in southern Italy and Sicily -- Robert Guiscard's invasion of Illyria: From the landing in Corfu to the victory at Dyrrachium -- The Norman advances in the Balkans and the end of the dream -- Bohemond of Taranto and the First Crusade -- The Count's campaign of 1107 and the Treaty of Devol -- Conclusions -- List of Byzantine emperors -- List of Hauteville family -- Glossary.
520 $a"The Norman expansion in eleventh-century Europe was a movement of enormous historical importance, which saw men and women from the duchy of Normandy settling in England, Italy, Sicily and the Middle East. The Norman establishment in the South is particularly interesting, because it represents the story of a few hundred mercenaries who managed to establish a principality in the Mediterranean that would later develop in to the Kingdom of Sicily. In this book the author examines the clash of two different "military cultures" -- the Normans and the Byzantines -- in one theatre of war -- the Balkans. It is the first study to date of the military organization of the Norman and Byzantine states in the Mediterranean, and of their overall strategies and their military tactics in the battlefield. It is also the first to examine the way in which each military culture reacted and adapted to the strategies and tactics of its enemies in Italy and the Balkans. The author closely follows the campaigns conducted by the Normans in the Byzantine provinces of Illyria and Macedonia and their battles against Imperial armies commanded by the Byzantine Emperor. He also examines the ways in which the Italian-Norman and Byzantine military systems differed, and their relative efficiencies."--Back cover.
651 0 $aBalkan Peninsula$xHistory.
650 0 $aNormans$zBalkan Peninsula.
650 0 $aNormans$xHistory, Military.
651 0 $aByzantine Empire$xHistory$yAlexius I Comnenus, 1081-1118.
830 0 $aWarfare in history.
852 0 $bglx$hDR39$i.T44 2014