Juho started following the work of Jose Manuel Rodriguez Garcia, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia . Spain, Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas.
Juho started following the work of Heini Ynnila, University of Oxford, Archaeology.
Juho started following the work of Mathieu Tillier, Ifpo (Institut français du Proche-Orient), Études Arabes, Médiévales Et Modernes.
Graduate Student, Department of History
Thesis Title: Comparing “Military Cultures”: Warfare in the Aegean Region from the Fourth Crusade to the Early Fifteenth Century
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Björn Forsén
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About
Post-graduate student of history in the University of Helsinki. In 2007 I finished my MA about War between Byzantines and the Principality of Achaia 1259-83. It was a case study about late Byzantine warfare written in Finnish. Now I am concentrating on my PhD in which I deal with the warfare in “Romania” from the point of view of “military culture” debate. “Romania” stands for the region around Aegean Sea that had belonged to the Byzantine Empire before the Fourth Crusade. It included modern Greece, West Anatolia, Macedonia, South Bulgaria and South Albania. The time frame of my study is from the Fourth Crusade to the early fifteenth century.
In my PhD I basically compare the warfare of Latins, Byzantines and “steppe nomads” (Turks included) and the main purpose is to discuss to what extent warfare was bound to a “military culture” and to what extent it was dictated by other factors such as geography, level of technology and political and socio-economic structures. History of warfare in “Romania” is also in many ways a neglected topic and comparing perspectives can also give new information about the warfare of different belligerents in ”Romania” and their advantages and deficiencies.
