Noble ideals and bloody realities : warfare in the middle ages /
The contributions presented in this volume address several issues related to the topic of medieval warfare from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and examining a number of geographical regions. The contributors analyze social and economic issues, military strategy, technological and medical dev...
| Други автори: | Christie, Niall., Yazigi, Maya. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2006.
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| Серия: |
History of warfare ;
v. 37. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=202781 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Noble ideals and bloody realities. |
Съдържание:
- Cover
- Contents
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- NOTES ON ARABIC TRANSLITERATION AND REFERENCES
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE. NOBLE IDEALS: PERCEPTIONS OF WARFARE
- "COLLATERAL DAMAGE?"; CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN THE EARLY IDEOLOGIES OF CHIVALRY AND CRUSADE / David J. Hay
- MEDIEVAL WARFARE AND THE VALUE OF A HUMAN LIFE / Kelly DeVries
- RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN OR WAR OF CONQUEST? MUSLIM VIEWS OF THE MOTIVES OF THE FIRST CRUSADE / Niall Christie
- PART TWO. BLOODY REALITIES: WAR IN PRACTICE
- THINKING ABOUT CRUSADER STRATEGY / John France
- THE TORTURE OF MILITARY CAPTIVES IN THE CRUSADES TO THE MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EAST / Piers D. Mitchell
- HOLY WAR, ROYAL WIVES, AND EQUIVOCATION IN TWELFTH-CENTURY JERUSALEM / Deborah Gerish
- ARMING THE ENEMY: NON-CHRISTIANS' ROLES IN THE MILITARY CULTURE OF THE CROWN OF ARAGON DURING THE RECONQUISTA / Paula R. Stiles
- COMMUNAL PIRACY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND'S CINQUE PORTS / David G. Sylvester
- WARTIME CORRUPTION AND COMPLAINTS OF THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY / Ilana Krug
- PART THREE. UNTO THE BREACH: RE-EXAMINING ISSUES IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN MILITARY HISTORIOGRAPHY
- THE MILITARY REVOLUTION AND THE EARLY ISLAMIC STATE / Hugh Kennedy
- BYZANTIUM, THE RELUCTANT WARRIOR / Warren Treadgold
- REYNALD OF CHATILLON AND THE RED SEA EXPEDITION OF 1182-83 / Marcus Milwright
- INDEX.