{"product_id":"9783031262951","title":"Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081-1095 (New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture) (1st ed. 2023. 2023. xvi, 425 S. XVI, 425 p. 210 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarek Mesko\u003c\/b\u003e is an assistant professor at the University of Hradec Kralove, Institute of History, Czech Republic. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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) \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 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)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48848178446571,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":292.97,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783031262951-1.jpg?v=1781717391","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783031262951","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}