Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15024-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

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 developments, ideology and rhetoric, and address warfare in Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world. In three parts, the contributors explore warfare in theory, warfare in practice and warfare as perceived through medieval and modern historiography. In doing so they present a number of engaging case studies that will be of use to students and scholars interested in warfare and its effects on medieval society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christie, Niall

Yazigi, Maya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Châtillon and the Red Sea Expedition of 1182–83; Marcus Milwright

Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Niall G.F. Christie, Ph.D. (1999) in medieval Islamic history, University of St Andrews, teaches religious studies and history at the University of British Columbia and Corpus Christi College in Vancouver, Canada. He is a specialist in the crusades.

Maya Yazigi, Ph.D. (2001) in Islamic Studies, University of California – Los Angeles, is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She is a specialist in early Islamic history.