The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony
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The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony

Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies

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The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony

Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies

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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. 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 Europe—a struggle that the Bulgarians ultimately lost. The primary focus is on Bulgaria, rather than Byzantium, and an effort is made to provide a historically reliable chronology of the assorted campaigns. 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 three distinct phases by interludes of relative peace between the contending parties, during which Bulgaria's domestic, foreign, and cultural developments shaped the nature and conduct of the fighting in each successive phase.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319562063
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia europea medieval

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. Note on Spelling and Pronunciation
  6. Chronology of the Bulgarian-ByzantineHegemonic Wars
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction: The Belligerents
  9. Chapter 2 Prelude: Establishment and Survival of the Bulgar State, 679–803
  10. Chapter 3 Krum’s Campaigns of Expansion, 809–814
  11. Chapter 4 Interlude: From Bulgar Stateto Bulgaria, 816–893
  12. Chapter 5 Simeon’s Campaigns for Imperial Recognition, 894–927
  13. Chapter 6 Interlude: From Wary Peace Through Rus’ Intervention, 927–971
  14. Chapter 7 Samuil’s Campaigns to Preserve Bulgaria and Bulgarian Defeat, 976–1018
  15. Chapter 8 Epilog
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index