Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527-1071 1848842155, 9781848842151

In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Tur

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Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare, 527-1071
1848842155, 9781848842151

In August 1071, the Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV Diogenese led out a powerful army in an attempt to roll back Seljuk Tur

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First published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing. Warfare was an integral part of the operations of the medieval eastern Roma

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Knowing that Western civilization has been for many centuries squarely in the sights of the Global Islamic Movement—with

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Ursinus, Michael, Bryer, Anthony

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The Byzantine Empire was the Islamic commonwealth’s first and most stubborn adversary. For many centuries it loomed larg

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Warfare, State and Society in the Byznatine World is the first comprehensive study of the warfare and the Byzantine Worl

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The retreat of the Byzantine army from Syria in around 650 CE, in advance of the approaching Arab armies, is one that ha

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These are medium-quality photos of the book, combined in one pdf-file, not a scan. Maps and plates are in the beginning

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Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they

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Beginning on the eve of oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and the Middle East, Th

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