I thought this article would appeal to some people.
Its pretty focussed on the violence :)
https://www.academia.edu/2401443/_The_Norman_invasion_of_Sicily_1061-1072_Numbers_and_Military_Tactics_War_in_History_17_2010_pp._381-402?email_work_card=view-paper (https://www.academia.edu/2401443/_The_Norman_invasion_of_Sicily_1061-1072_Numbers_and_Military_Tactics_War_in_History_17_2010_pp._381-402?email_work_card=view-paper)
thanks, a specific period of history I do like. The seminal book on the subject for me is https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780571340231?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_tqGnKyw6QIVgu3tCh268gzoEAQYAiABEgImbPD_BwE (https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780571340231?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_tqGnKyw6QIVgu3tCh268gzoEAQYAiABEgImbPD_BwE). well worth a read as well
Quote from: Holly on May 13, 2020, 08:46:59 AM
thanks, a specific period of history I do like. The seminal book on the subject for me is https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780571340231?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_tqGnKyw6QIVgu3tCh268gzoEAQYAiABEgImbPD_BwE (https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9780571340231?gC=5a105e8b&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_tqGnKyw6QIVgu3tCh268gzoEAQYAiABEgImbPD_BwE). well worth a read as well
Actually Dave, it's
The Normans in the South, the first volume, that covers the invasion.
very true....! :-[
It is worth looking at Georgios Theotokis' entry on Academia
https://ibnhaldun.academia.edu/GeorgiosTheotokis
He's quite prolific around the Normans in the South and Byzantium. He also has some interesting books on the way.
oh no....more stuff to earmark and download ;D
IMO the war with the Normans ( and Venetians) destroyed the Byzantine Empire before the Crusade of 1204. They managed a run of incompetent emperors and exhausting wars that exposed them to an attack that forty years before would never have been attempted.
Roy
quite right to point out Roy. Alot of people point to Manzikert as the beginning of the end for the BE and 1204 as the death knell but the war in Italy/Sicily accelerated it
Quote from: Holly on May 13, 2020, 12:46:02 PM
quite right to point out Roy. Alot of people point to Manzikert as the beginning of the end for the BE and 1204 as the death knell but the war in Italy/Sicily accelerated it
And, of course, the Norman expansion across the Adriatic.
Quote from: Erpingham on May 13, 2020, 12:50:01 PM
Quote from: Holly on May 13, 2020, 12:46:02 PM
quite right to point out Roy. Alot of people point to Manzikert as the beginning of the end for the BE and 1204 as the death knell but the war in Italy/Sicily accelerated it
And, of course, the Norman expansion across the Adriatic.
pesky Normans!