1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254764703321

Autore

P. Hupchick Dennis

Titolo

The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony : Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies / / by Dennis P. Hupchick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319562063

3319562061

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXXV, 363 p. 9 illus.)

Disciplina

940.902

Soggetti

Europe - History - 476-1492

Military history

Imperialism

Europe - History - To 476

History of Medieval Europe

Military History

Imperialism and Colonialism

History of Ancient Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One. Introduction: The Belligerents -- Chapter Two. Prelude: Establishment and Survival of the Bulgar State, 679-803 -- Chapter Three. Krum's Campaigns of Expansion, 809-814 -- Chapter Four. Interlude: From Bulgar State to Bulgaria, 816-893 -- Chapter Five. Simeon's Campaigns for Imperial Recognition, 894-927 -- Chapter Six. Interlude: From Wary Peace Through Rus' Intervention, 927-971  -- Chapter Seven. Samuil's Campaigns to Preserve Bulgaria and Bulgarian Defeat, 976-1018 -- Chapter Eight. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557440703321

Autore

Goryachev Andrew

Titolo

Symmetry Breaking in Cells and Tissues

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Soggetti

Biology, life sciences

Research and information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Symmetry Breaking in Cells and Tissues" presents a collection of seventeen reviews, opinions and original research papers contributed by theoreticians, physicists and mathematicians, as well as experimental biologists, united by a common interest in biological pattern formation and morphogenesis. The contributors discuss diverse manifestations of symmetry breaking in biology and showcase recent developments in experimental and theoretical approaches to biological morphogenesis and pattern formation on multiple scales.