Warriors and their Weapons around the Time of the Crusades: Relationships between Byzantium, the West and the Islamic World

by Nicolle,David

• ISBN13: 9780860788980
• ISBN10: 0860788989
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

The technological relationship between the three main civilizations of the Western world - Byzantium, the Islamic world and the West - most particularly in the area of arms, armour and military technology is a field of research for which Dr Nicolle is noted. This volume deals principally with Western Europe and Byzantium, which for many centuries learnt from the Muslims in these matters; several articles also focus on military interactions in the Crusader states. The work draws upon both written and archaeological sources, but above all makes use of the depictions of war and military equipment in contemporary art to examine the interconnections across the medieval world.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Acknowledgements	xiii
Medieval Warfare: The Unfriendly Interface	579
The Journal of Military History, 63, Lexington, 1999
Byzantine and Islamic Arms and Armour: Evidence for Mutual Influence	299
Graeco--Arabic, IV, Athens, 1991
No Way Overland? Evidence for Byzantine Arms and Armour on the 10th--11th Century Taurus Frontier	226
Graeco--Arabic, VI, Athens, 1995
The Impact of the European Couched Lance on Muslim Military Tradition	6	(11)
The Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, Leatherhead, 1980
Armes et Armures dans les Epopees des Croisades	17	(310)
Les Epopees de La Croisade, Stuttgart, 1987
Arms and Armour Illustrated in the Art of the Latin East	327
From `The Horns of Hattin', ed. B.Z. Kedar, Jerusalem, 1992
Wounds, Military Surgery and the Reality of Crusading Warfare; The Evidence of Usamah's Memoires	33	(80)
Journal of Oriental and African Studies, 5, Athens, 1993
`Ain al-Habis. The Cave de Sueth	113
Archeologie Medievale, XVIII, Rouen, 1988
The Monreale Capitals and the Military Equipment of Later Norman Sicily	87
Gladius, XV, Madrid, 1980
The Cappella Palatina Ceiling and the Muslim Military Inheritance of Norman Sicily	45
Gladius, XVI, Madrid, 1983
Arms, Armour and Horse Harnesses in the Parma Baptistery Painted Ceiling (First publication)	1	(1)
Index	1