Naval Warfare and Maritime Conflict in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Mediterranean

Ancient Warfare Series Volume 2
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43077-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 117, 498 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 986 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East / Ancient Warfare

In Naval Warfare and Maritime Conflict in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Mediterranean, Jeffrey P. Emanuel examines the evidence for maritime violence in the Mediterranean region during both the Late Bronze Age and the tumultuous transition to the Early Iron Age in the years surrounding the turn of the 12th century BCE.

There has traditionally been little differentiation between the methods of armed conflict engaged in during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, on both the coasts and the open seas, while polities have been alternately characterized as legitimate martial actors and as state sponsors of piracy. By utilizing material, documentary, and iconographic evidence and delineating between the many forms of armed conflict, Emanuel provides an up-to-date assessment not only of the nature and frequency of warfare, raiding, piracy, and other forms of maritime conflict in the Late Bronze Age and Late Bronze-Early Iron Age transition, but also of the extent to which modern views about this activity remain the product of inference and speculation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

P Emanuel, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey P. Emanuel is CHS Fellow in Aegean Archaeology and Prehistory and Associate Director of Academic Technology at Harvard University. He is also the author of Black Ships and Sea Raiders: The Late Bronze-Early Iron Age Context of Odysseus’ Second Cretan Lie (Lexington, 2017).