Bøger af Charles R. Bowlus

Assembles evidence from Frankish, Moravian, and Byzantine documents; from archaeological finds; and details of the terrain to buttress the view that the center of the Slavic Moravian empire was in what is now Serbia, much farther southeast than is usually thought. This interpretation explains how the Franks managed otherwise inexplicable military successes against the Moravians.

In August 955, The forces of Otto annihilated a huge army of Hungarian mounted archers in an encounter that is known as the battle of Lechfeld. But these warriors could have fled back to the Carpathian Basin, rebuild their strength and resume their raids; their total . This book provides an explanation for this decisive nature of Otto's victory.