Alexios I Komnenos in the Balkans, 1081-1095

By Marek Mesko

​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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031262956
• ISBN13: 9783031262951
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"