Resultaten voor 'georgios theotokis'
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The Campaign and Battle of Manzikert, 1071
The Battle of Manzikert on August 26, 1071 is widely regarded as one of the most significant turning points in medieval history, frequently presented as the culmination of a Turco-Islamic assault upon the Byzantine bulwark of a Christian world struggling for survival. Emperor Romanus IV's campaigns between 1068 and 1071 do, in many ways, represent the empire's fightback against an enemy that for decades had penetrated deep into Asia Minor, its heartland and strategic bulwark. Yet Manzikert was not a disaster. This book examines the geopolitical background and the origins of the campaign that led to the battle, the main protagonists, and their strategies and battle tactics. It also evaluates the primary sources and the enduring legacy of the battle, for both the Greek and Turkish historiography of the twentieth century.
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War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium presents new insights and critical approaches to warfare between the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours during the eleventh century. This book is valuable reading for scholars and students interested in Byzantium history and military history.
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Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century
Byzantine Military Rhetoric in the Ninth Century is the first English translation of the ninth-century Anonymi Byzantini Rhetorica Militaris. Including a detailed commentary and critical introduction, it will appeal to all those interested in Byzantine political ideology and military history.
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War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium
War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium presents new insights and critical approaches to warfare between the Byzantine Empire and its neighbours during the eleventh century.Modern historians have identified the eleventh century as a landmark era in Byzantine history. This was a period of invasions, political tumult, financial crisis and social disruption, but it was also a time of cultural and intellectual innovation and achievement. Despite this, the subject of warfare during this period remains underexplored. Addressing an important gap in the historiography of Byzantium, the volume argues that the eleventh century was a period of important geo-political change, when the Byzantine Empire was attacked on all sides, and its frontiers were breached. This book is valuable reading for scholars and students interested in Byzantium history and military history.
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Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean
The kingdom of Sicily plays a huge part in the history of the Norman people; their conquest brought in a new era of invasion, interaction and integration in the Mediterranean, However, much previous scholarship has tended to concentrate on their activities in England and the Holy Land. This volume aims to redress the balance by focusing on the Hautevilles, their successors and their followers. It considers the operational, tactical, technical and logistical aspects of the conduct of war in the South throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries, looking also at its impact on Italian and Sicilian multi-cultural society. Topics include the narratives of the Norman expansion, exchanges and diffusion between the "military cultures" of the Normans and the peoples they encountered in the South, and their varied policies of conquest, consolidation and expansion in the different operational theatres of land and sea.Dr GEORGIOS THEOTOKIS is Lecturer at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul.Contributors: Matthew Bennett, Daniel P. Franke, Michael S. Fulton, Serban V. Marin, David Nicolle, Francesca Petrizzo, Luigi Russo, Charles D. Stanton, Georgios Theotokis, James Titterton.
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Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria and Mesopotamia in the Tenth Century
'An excellent look at the very important conflict between the Byzantines and the Arabs'Kelly DeVries, Professor of History, Loyola University MarylandThe first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth centuryThis book examines the strategies and military tactics of the Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in Upper Mesopotamia in the tenth century. The period of conflict is difficult to define. It was too inactive to be called a 'war' but too active to be called a 'cold war'. Nevertheless, it was a 'war', even if it lacked the numerous pitched battles or protracted sieges that defined other periods or other operational theatres of war.This study examines the way the Byzantines innovated and adapted their strategies and tactics to those of their enemies in the East, giving a rich picture of tenth-century Byzantine warfare.Key Features. Examines the major and most important pitched battles of this period and the Byzantine and Arab military manuals which show how armies were organised and deployed in the battlefield. Looks at how the Byzantines adapted their strategies and tactics to those of their enemies in the tenth-century Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia. Shows the transmission of military knowledge through the ages by comparing the military treatises of the tenth century with those from the Roman and Ancient Greek periodsGeorgios Theotokis is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Byzantine Studies Research Centre, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul. He is the author of Norman Campaigns in the Balkans 1081-1108 (2014) and editor of Military History of the Mediterranean Sea (2018).Cover image: 11th Century Fresco of Saints Theodore and George slaying the dragon (or snake as depicted in the frescoe), St Onuphrius Church (Yilanli Kilise - Snake Church). Goreme Open air Museum, Cappadocia, TurkeyCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-3103-3BarcodeCover image: 11th Century Fresco of Saints Theodore and George slaying the dragon (or snake as depicted in the frescoe), St Onuphrius Church (Yilanli Kilise - Snake Church). Goreme Open air Museum, Cappadocia, TurkeyCover design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-1-4744-3103-3Barcode
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The Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108
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. 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.
€ 120,20