The Norman Campaigns in the Balkans, 1081-1108

First full-length analysis of Norman military organisation in the Balkans: events, strategy, and tactics.

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. 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 Mediterrane...