The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony: Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3319562053 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 363 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The various belligerents’ military organizations, defensive technologies, armaments, and tactics are surveyed in an introduction to the main narrative. The primary focus is on Bulgaria, rather than Byzantium, and an effort is made to provide a historically reliable chronology of the assorted campaigns. From the Back Cover This book provides an interpretive narrative of the wars fought by Bulgaria against the Byzantine Empire for dominant control of the Balkan Peninsula during the early medieval era. A prelude chapter sets the stage fo
. He has previously written The Balkans: From Constantinople to Communism (Palgrave, 2002) as well as a number of books and articles on Bulgaria, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Dennis P. Hupchick is Professor of History, Emeritus at Wilkes University, USA. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Bulgar
Over a span of two centuries, from the early ninth through the early eleventh, and under the leadership of the Bulgarian rulers Krum, Simeon I, and Samuil, those conflicts evolved from simple confrontations for territorial possession into a life-or-death struggle for imperial precedence within the Orthodox world then emerging in Eastern Europea struggle that the Bulgarians ultimately lost. The various belligerents’ military organizations, defensive technologies, armaments, and tactics are surveyed in an introduction to the main narrative. A prelude chapter sets the stage for the hegemonic conflict, which was divided into