The Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for Early Medieval Balkan Hegemony: Silver-Lined Skulls and Blinded Armies

by Dennis P. Hupchick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319562053
• ISBN13: 9783319562056
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"