LEADER 04163nam 22006135 450 001 9910254764703321 005 20200629152934.0 010 $a3-319-56206-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-56206-3 035 $a(CKB)4340000000061412 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-56206-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4913705 035 $a(PPN)233084401 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000061412 100 $a20170712d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony $eSilver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies /$fby Dennis P. Hupchick 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XXXV, 363 p. 9 illus.) 311 $a3-319-56205-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aEurope?History?476-1492 606 $aMilitary history 606 $aImperialism 606 $aHistory, Ancient 606 $aEurope?History?To 476 606 $aHistory of Medieval Europe$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717070 606 $aHistory of Military$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/721000 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/722000 606 $aAncient History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/712000 606 $aHistory of Ancient Europe$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717010 615 0$aEurope?History?476-1492. 615 0$aMilitary history. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aHistory, Ancient. 615 0$aEurope?History?To 476. 615 14$aHistory of Medieval Europe. 615 24$aHistory of Military. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aAncient History. 615 24$aHistory of Ancient Europe. 676 $a940.902 700 $aP. Hupchick$b Dennis$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0982589 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254764703321 996 $aThe Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony$92242461 997 $aUNINA