Norman Invasion of Sicily

[Dangun]

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

[Imperial Dave]

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. well worth a read as well

[Erpingham]

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. well worth a read as well

Actually Dave, it's The Normans in the South, the first volume, that covers the invasion.

[Imperial Dave]

very true....!

[Erpingham]

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.

[Imperial Dave]

oh no....more stuff to earmark and download 

[aligern]

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

[Imperial Dave]

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

[Erpingham]

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.

[Imperial Dave]

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!