Crusaders, Condottieri, and Cannon : : Medieval Warfare in Societies Around the Mediterranean / / edited by Kagay, Villalon.

• Superior document: History of Warfare ; 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Kagay,; Villalon,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History of Warfare ; 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume consists of the work of eighteen established and younger scholars and focuses on the Mediterranean as a military arena during the Middle Ages. The essays center on several pillars of Mediterranean warfare: the crusading movement including the Spanish reconquista , the development of gunpowder weaponry, the widespread use of mercenaries, and warfare as understood by the lawcodes and intellectuals of the period. A number of articles in this collection present new answers to old historiographical questions.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE LAWS OF WAR -- 1. War (And Peace) in the Law Codes of Alfonso X / Joseph F. O'Callaghan -- 2. Secular Pragmatism and Thinking about War in Some Court Writings of Pere III el Cerimonios / David A. Cohen -- 3. The National Defense Clause and the Emergence of the Catalan State: Princeps Namque Revisited / Donald J. Kagay -- PART TWO CRUSADERS AT WAR -- 4. The Siege of Damietta: Seapower in the Fifth Crusade 1217-1221 A.D. / Douglas Sterling -- 5. The Mongol Presence and Impact in the Lands of the Eastern Mediterranean / Timothy M. May -- 6. The Effect of Killing the Christian Prisoners at the Battle of Nicopolis / Kelly DeVries -- PART THREE THE SPANISH RECONQUEST -- 7. Enemies and Allies: The crown of Aragon and Al-Andalus in the Twelfth Century / Josep-David Garrido i Valls -- 8. 'The King Sent Them Very Little Relief': The Castilian Siege of Algeciras, 1278-1279 / Cynthia L. Chamberlin -- 9. The Experience of War in Fourteenth-Century Spain: Alfonso XI and the Capture of Algeciras (1342-1344) / Nicolas Agrait -- PART FOUR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA -- 10. An Appreciation of the War for Granada (1481-92): A Critical Link in Western Military History / Albert D. McJoynt -- 11. The Cannon Conquest of Nasrid Spain and the End of the Reconquista / Weston F. Cook, Jr. -- PART FIVE FOURTEENTH-CENTURY WARFARE -- 12. 'Slaying the Hydra-Headed Beast': Italy and the Companies of Adventure in the Fourteenth Century / William Caferro -- 13. 'Seeking Castles in Spain': Sir Hugh Calveley and the Free Companies' Intervention in Iberian Warfare (1366-1369) / L. J. Andrew Villalon -- 14. The Master's Hand and the Secular Arm: Property and Discipline in the Hospital of St. John in the Fourteenth Century / Mark Dupuy -- PART SIX NEW ANSWERS FOR OLD QUESTIONS -- 15. The Geography of Power: Matilda of Tuscany and the Strategy of Active Defense / Valerie Eads -- 16. Reconstructing a 'Society Organized for War' / Theresa M. Vann -- 17. Twelfth-Century Jewish Responses To Crusade And Jihad / Steven Bowman -- Bibliography -- Genealogies -- Index.