Medieval Ships and Warfare

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ISBN: 9780754624851 | 0754624854
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/28/2008

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This collection of essays and articles from a wide range of journals is intended to make more accessible to students and scholars some of the most important writing in English in this field from the 1950s to the present day. The collection draws attention to work on both the design and the use of ships in warfare in the period c. 1000-c.1500.

Series preface
Introduction
North Western Europe
Ships and Boats
Issues of Technology and Evidence
Documentary sources and the medieval ship: some aspects of the evidence
English galleys 1272-1377
The building of the Lyme galley, 1294-1296
Bayonne and the king's ships, 1204-1420
Piracy and Pirates
John Crabbe
Flemish pirate, merchant and adventurer
Henry IV and the English privateers
Piracy or policy: the crisis in the Channel, 1400-1403
Fleets and Warfare
The Battle of Damme - 1213
God, leadership, Flemings and archery: contemporary perceptions of victory and defeat at the Battle of Sluys, 1340
The effects of the Battle of Sluys upon the administration of English naval impressment, 1340-1343
The naval service of the Cinque Ports
The Earl of Warwick's domination of the Channel and the naval dimension of the Wars of the Roses, 1456-1460
The Mediterranean
Islam versus Christendom: the naval dimension, 1000-1600
The Islamic Powers
The Fatimid navy during the early crusades, 1099-1124
The Mamluks and naval power: a phase of the struggle between Islam and Christian Europe
The place of Saladin in the naval history of the Mediterranean sea in the middle ages
Piracy as an Islamic-Christian interface in the 13th century
Rotting ships and razed harbors: the naval policy of the Mamluks
Iberia
The naval battles of Roger of Lauria
The Catalan fleet and Moorish sea-power (1337-1344)
Ships of the 13th-century Catalan navy
The warships of the kings of Aragon and their fighting tactics during the 13th and 14th centuries AD
Reportage representation and reality: the extent to which chronicle accounts and contemporary illustrations can be relied upon when discussing the tactics used in medieval galley warfare
The lexicon of naval tactics in Ramon Muntaner's Crònica
Genoa and Venice
Naval strategy in the first Genoese-Venetian war, 1257-1270
Fleet operations in the first Genoese-Venetian War, 1264-66
Foundations of Venetian naval strategy from Pietro II Orseolo to the Battle of Zonchio, 1000-1500
Name index
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