A Military History of the Mediterranean Sea

Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors

Introduction: War, Warfare, and the Mediterranean Military History

Part 1: Naval Activity 1 The Byzantine War Navy and the West, Fifth to Twelfth Centuries â T.C. Lounghis 2 The Defence of the Venetian Dominio Da Mar in the Sixteenth Century: Ship Design, Naval Architecture, and the Naval Career of Vettor Fausto's Quinquereme â Lilia Campana 3 Sea Power and the Ottomans in the Early Modern Mediterranean World â Elina Gugliuzzo 4 Conflict and Collaboration: The Spanish and Ottoman Navies in the Mediterranean, 1453-1923 â Wayne H. Bowen

Part 2: Weapons & Armour 5 A Sixth or Early Seventh Century Ad Iconography of Roman Military Equipment in Egypt: The Deir Abou Hennis Frescoes â Raffaele D'Amato 6 Î£Ï ÎºÎ¿Ï : An Unusual Byzantine Weapon â Georgios Theotokis 7 Post-Byzantine Art and Western Influences in Military Iconography: The Case of Staff Weapons in the Work of Michael Damaskenos â Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis

Part 3: Strategy & Command 8 The Middle Ground: The Passage of Crusade Armies to The Holy Land By Land and Sea (1096-1204) â Alan V. Murray 9 The Theory of the Passagium Particulare: A Commercial Blockade of the Mediterranean in the Early Fourteenth Century? â Cornel Bontea 10 Faith and Authority: Guy of Lusignan at the Battle of Acre (4th October 1189) â Stephen Bennett 11 By the Sword or by an Oath: Siege Warfare in the Latin East 1097-1131 â Ian Wilson

Part 4: Military Literature 12 Late Byzantine Elites and Military Literature: Authors, Readers and Manuscripts (c.1050-c.1450) â Philip Rance 13 The Byzantine Influence on the Military Writings of Theodore I Palaiologos, Marquis of Montferrat â Nikolaos Kanellopoulos 14 Warfare in the Histories of John Kantakouzenos â Savvas Kyriakidis

Part 5: Military Roles within Society 15 Stradioti, Cappelletti, Compagnie or Milizie Greche: `Greek' Mounted and Foot Mercenary Companies in the Venetian State (Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) â Stathis Birtachas 16 A Secret War: Espionage in Venetian Corfu during the Construction of the San Marco Fortress â Chrysobalantis Papadamou 17 "Rather the Wealth to Support Their Status than Their Quality as Soldiers". The Social Position of the Officers in Lucca's Ordinanze Della Montagna, 1550-1600 â Jacopo Pessina 18 Commanders of the Janissary Army: The Janissary Agas, Their Career and Promotion Patterns â Aysel Yildiz

Index