The Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108 by Georgios Th... - 9781843839217

The Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108Author(s): Georgios Theotokis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781843839217, 978-1843839217\nSynopsis\nFirst full-length analysis of Norman military organisation in the Balkans: events, strategy, and tactics.\n\nThe 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 establishmentin 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.\n In thisbook 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.