Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era : 1050-1350: Western Europe and the Crusader States

by Nicolle, David

• ISBN13: 9781853673474
• ISBN10: 1853673471
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Greenhill Books

Summary

This lavishly illustrated volume details the armies of western and central European states and their client kingdoms in the Middle East in over three centuries of military development and almost continuous warfare -- a decisive period when Christendom, Islam, and the Mongol world came into violent and sustained conflict, this definitive study pinpoints the evolving military sciences, technologies, and practices in an era of revolutionary change.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Introduction	9	(2)
Author's Note	11	(2)
Acknowledgements	13	(3)
Maps
A: Christendom and its neighbours, mid-11th century	16	(1)
B: Christendom and its neighbours, c.1200	17	(1)
C: Christendom and its neighbours, mid-14th century	18	(1)
Northern France	19	(26)
England and Wales	45	(48)
Scotland	93	(6)
Ireland	99	(12)
Southern France	111	(14)
Aragon, Navarre and Catalonia	125	(18)
Leon and Castile	143	(20)
Portugal	163	(4)
The Empire -- Germany	167	(36)
The Empire -- Bohemia	203	(4)
The Empire -- Arles	207	(6)
The Empire -- Italy	213	(34)
Southern Italy and Sicily	247	(26)
The Crusader States	273	(20)
The Western Balkans	293	(8)
Hungary	301	(24)
Poland	325	(14)
Scandinavia	339	(14)
The Baltic Peoples	353	(6)
Figures	359	(180)
Dictionary of Terms	539	(40)
Bibliographies	579	(44)
Index	623