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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.
Contents
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.