War at sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

This volume is both a restatement of current interpretations of sea power in the middle ages and the Renaissance and a general introduction to naval and maritime history over four and a half centuries. The book offers broad conclusions on the role and characteristics of armed force at sea before 165...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hattendorf, John B. (HerausgeberIn), Unger, Richard W. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2003
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Theories of naval power: A.T. Mahan and the naval history of medieval and renaissance Europe / John B. Hattendorf
  • Naval force in the Viking age and high medieval Denmark / Niels Lund
  • Scandinavian warships and naval power in the 13th and 14th centuries / Jan Bill
  • Naval power and maritime technology during the hundred years' war / Timothy J. Runyan
  • Oars, sails, and guns: the English and war at sea, c. 1200-1500 / Ian Friel
  • Byzantium and the sea: Byzantine fleets and the history of the empire in the age of the Macedonian emperors, c. 900-1025 CE / John H. Pryor
  • Iberian naval power, 1000-1650 / Lawrence V. Mott
  • Venice, Genoa, and control of the seas in the 13th and 14th centuries / Michel Balard
  • An exemplary maritime republic: Venice at the end of the middle ages / Bernard Doumerc
  • The navies of the Medici: the Florentine navy and the navy of the sacred military order of Saint Stephen, 1547-1648 / Marco Gemignani
  • The state of Portuguese naval power in the 16th century / Francisco Contendo Domingues
  • Naval power in the Netherlands before the Dutch revolt / Louis Sicking
  • Naval power and control of the seas in the Baltic in the 16th century / Jan Glete
  • The new Atlantic: naval warfare in the 16th century / N.A.M. Rodger
  • Toward a history of medieval sea power / Richard W. Unger