The comprehensive breadth and scope of the Journal are to the fore in this issue, which ranges widely both geographically and chronologically. The subjects of analysis are equally diverse, with three contributions dealing with the Crusades, four with matters related to the Hundred Years War, two with high-medieval Italy, one with the Alans in the Byzantine-Catalan conflict of the early fourteenth century, and one with the wars of the Duke of Cephalonia in Western Greece and Albania at the turn of the fifteenth century. Topics include military careers, tactics and strategy, the organization of urban defenses, close analysis of chronicle sources, and cultural approaches to the acceptance of gunpowder artillery and the prevalence of military "games" in Italian cities.
Author(s): Clifford J. Rogers, Kelly DeVries, John France (eds.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 280
City: Woodbridge
List of Illustrations and Tables vi
1. Military Games and the Training of the Infantry / Aldo A. Settia 1
2. The Battle of Civitate: A Plausible Account / Charles D. Stanton 25
3. The Square “Fighting March” of the Crusaders at the battle of Ascalon (1099) / Georgios Theotokis 57
4. How the Crusades Could Have Been Won: King Baldwin II of Jerusalem’s Campaigns against Aleppo (1124–5) and Damascus (1129) / T. S. Asbridge 73
5. Saint Catherine’s Day Miracle – the Battle of Montgisard / Michael Ehrlich 95
6. The Military Effectiveness of Alan Mercenaries in Byzantium, 1301–1306 / Scott Jessee and Anatoly Isaenko 107
7. Winning and Recalling Honor in Spain: Pro-English Poetry in Celebration of the Battle of Nájera (1367) / Donald J. Kagay and L. J. Andrew Villalon 133
8. The Wars and the Army of the Duke of Cephalonia Carlo I Tocco (c. 1375–1429) / Savvas Kyriakidis 167
9. Sir John Radcliffe, K.G. (d. 1441): Miles Famossissimus / A. Compton Reeves 183
10. Defense Schemes of Southampton in the Late Medieval Period, 1300–1500 / Randall Moffett 215
11. French and English Acceptance of Medieval Gunpowder Weaponry / Kelly DeVries 259
