MERCENARIES TO CONQUERORS

Author: Paul Brown

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Year published: 2016

Pagination: 251pp, 20 colour illustrations, 2 maps

Condition: New in d/w

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When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a few generations some of these men would seize control of Apulia, Campania, Calabria and Sicily. How did they make such extraordinary gains and then consolidate their power? this absorbing study, seeks to answer these questions and throw light onto the Norman conquests across the Mediterranean which were even more remarkable than those achieved in France and England.