Author: Ralph Bailey Yewdale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857062109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Warrior Prince of Antioch Bohemond-nicknamed because of his large size as a child-was a Norman soldier and adventurer who became a pivotal figure among the committee of nobleman leaders of the First Crusade. He learnt his military craft at the side of his father Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria. Upon the death of his father, Bohemond went to war with his half-brother, Roger and his mother to reclaim what he considered his lost birthright. The outcome was a partial victory in the award of the principality of Taranto, but it was clearly not enough for a man of his enormous ambition, intellect and military prowess. The First Crusade in 1096 provided the opportunity he required. Irrespective of his religious convictions, which may have been inconsiderable from the outset, Bohemond all but led the crusade with more military success than were achieved in the two subsequent crusades. He defeated and ejected his Muslim enemies from the principal object of his ambitions-Antioch-and then held it in defiance of the claims to it by Alexius of Byzantium. This was a fascinating man was-quite literally-a giant figure of the Norman period in every sense. Available in soft cover and hard back with dust jacket.
Bohemond I, Prince of Antioch
Author: Ralph Bailey Yewdale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857062109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Warrior Prince of Antioch Bohemond-nicknamed because of his large size as a child-was a Norman soldier and adventurer who became a pivotal figure among the committee of nobleman leaders of the First Crusade. He learnt his military craft at the side of his father Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria. Upon the death of his father, Bohemond went to war with his half-brother, Roger and his mother to reclaim what he considered his lost birthright. The outcome was a partial victory in the award of the principality of Taranto, but it was clearly not enough for a man of his enormous ambition, intellect and military prowess. The First Crusade in 1096 provided the opportunity he required. Irrespective of his religious convictions, which may have been inconsiderable from the outset, Bohemond all but led the crusade with more military success than were achieved in the two subsequent crusades. He defeated and ejected his Muslim enemies from the principal object of his ambitions-Antioch-and then held it in defiance of the claims to it by Alexius of Byzantium. This was a fascinating man was-quite literally-a giant figure of the Norman period in every sense. Available in soft cover and hard back with dust jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857062109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Warrior Prince of Antioch Bohemond-nicknamed because of his large size as a child-was a Norman soldier and adventurer who became a pivotal figure among the committee of nobleman leaders of the First Crusade. He learnt his military craft at the side of his father Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria. Upon the death of his father, Bohemond went to war with his half-brother, Roger and his mother to reclaim what he considered his lost birthright. The outcome was a partial victory in the award of the principality of Taranto, but it was clearly not enough for a man of his enormous ambition, intellect and military prowess. The First Crusade in 1096 provided the opportunity he required. Irrespective of his religious convictions, which may have been inconsiderable from the outset, Bohemond all but led the crusade with more military success than were achieved in the two subsequent crusades. He defeated and ejected his Muslim enemies from the principal object of his ambitions-Antioch-and then held it in defiance of the claims to it by Alexius of Byzantium. This was a fascinating man was-quite literally-a giant figure of the Norman period in every sense. Available in soft cover and hard back with dust jacket.
Bohemond I, Prince of Antioch
Author: Ralph Bailey Yewdale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Wine of Satan
Author: Laverne Gay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258972950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258972950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
The Principality of Antioch and Its Frontiers in the Twelfth Century
Author: Andrew D. Buck
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An investigation into how Antioch maintained itself as an independent principality during a period of considerable challenges.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783271736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An investigation into how Antioch maintained itself as an independent principality during a period of considerable challenges.
Bohemond of Taranto
Author: Georgios Theotokis
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1526744295
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
“A brilliant picture of a great medieval warrior and crusader, clear and concise, which brings to life the whole Mediterranean world in an age of crisis” (John France, author of Perilous Glory). Bohemond of Taranto, Lord of Antioch, was the unofficial leader of the First Crusade. A man of boundless ambition and inexhaustible energy, he was one of the most remarkable warriors in medieval Mediterranean history. While he failed in his quest to secure the Byzantine throne, he succeeded in founding the most enduring of all the crusader states. In this authoritative biography, Georgios Theotokis presents a detailed portrait of Bohemond as a soldier and commander. Covering Taranto’s contribution to the crusades, Theotokis focuses on his military achievements in Italy, Sicily, the Balkans, and Anatolia. Since medieval commanders generally receive little credit for their strategic understanding, Theotokis examines Bohemond’s war-plans in his many campaigns, describing how he adapted his battle-tactics when facing different opponents and considering whether his approach to war was typical of the Norman commanders of his time.
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1526744295
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
“A brilliant picture of a great medieval warrior and crusader, clear and concise, which brings to life the whole Mediterranean world in an age of crisis” (John France, author of Perilous Glory). Bohemond of Taranto, Lord of Antioch, was the unofficial leader of the First Crusade. A man of boundless ambition and inexhaustible energy, he was one of the most remarkable warriors in medieval Mediterranean history. While he failed in his quest to secure the Byzantine throne, he succeeded in founding the most enduring of all the crusader states. In this authoritative biography, Georgios Theotokis presents a detailed portrait of Bohemond as a soldier and commander. Covering Taranto’s contribution to the crusades, Theotokis focuses on his military achievements in Italy, Sicily, the Balkans, and Anatolia. Since medieval commanders generally receive little credit for their strategic understanding, Theotokis examines Bohemond’s war-plans in his many campaigns, describing how he adapted his battle-tactics when facing different opponents and considering whether his approach to war was typical of the Norman commanders of his time.
The Creation of the Principality of Antioch, 1098-1130
Author: Thomas S. Asbridge
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851156613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The first major study of the principality of Antioch, reasserting its significance and challenging the dominance of Jerusalem in modern crusading historiography.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851156613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The first major study of the principality of Antioch, reasserting its significance and challenging the dominance of Jerusalem in modern crusading historiography.
The First Crusade
Author: Peter Frankopan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II’s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade’s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade’s untold history.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674064992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II’s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade’s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade’s untold history.
The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen
Author:
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409400325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. The text provides an important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105. The work as a whole has a striking Norman point of view and contains details found in no other source, providing a corrective to the strong northern focus of most of the other narrative sources for the First Crusade.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781409400325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. The text provides an important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105. The work as a whole has a striking Norman point of view and contains details found in no other source, providing a corrective to the strong northern focus of most of the other narrative sources for the First Crusade.
The Alexiad
Author: Anna Komnene
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141904542
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1041
Book Description
A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor through the eyes and words of his daughter which offers an unparalleled view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141904542
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1041
Book Description
A revised edition of Anna Komnene's Alexiad, to replace our existing 1969 edition. This is the first European narrative history written by a woman - an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor through the eyes and words of his daughter which offers an unparalleled view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Son of Blood
Author: Jack Ludlow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750539340
Category : Bohemund (Fictitious character : Ludlow)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first paperback in Ludlow s epic continuation of the Conquest trilogy (Mercenaries, Warriors, Conquest)"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750539340
Category : Bohemund (Fictitious character : Ludlow)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first paperback in Ludlow s epic continuation of the Conquest trilogy (Mercenaries, Warriors, Conquest)"