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Author : Charles David Stanton
Release : 2008
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Book Synopsis Norman Naval Power in the Mediterranean in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by : Charles David Stanton
Download or read book Norman Naval Power in the Mediterranean in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries written by Charles David Stanton. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles D. Stanton
Release : 2016-07-21
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Norman Naval Operations in the Mediterranean by : Charles D. Stanton
Download or read book Norman Naval Operations in the Mediterranean written by Charles D. Stanton. This book was released on 2016-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formidable force of the Normans at sea has been frequently overlooked. This volume shows their dominance over the Mediterranean, and its far-reaching effects.
Author : Georgios Theotokis
Release : 2020
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean by : Georgios Theotokis
Download or read book Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean written by Georgios Theotokis. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Author : Paul Brown
Release : 2016-10-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Mercenaries to Conquerors by : Paul Brown
Download or read book Mercenaries to Conquerors written by Paul Brown. This book was released on 2016-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a generation these men would have seized control of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily. How did they make such extraordinary gains and then consolidate their power? Paul Brown, in this thoroughly researched and absorbing study, seeks to answer these questions and throw light onto the Norman conquests across the Mediterranean. Throughout he focuses on the military side of their progress, as they advanced from mercenaries to conquerors, then crusaders. The story of the campaigns they undertook in Italy, Sicily, the Balkans and the Near East reveals their remarkable talent for war. The dominant role played by a succession of Norman leaders is a key theme of the narrative a line of ambitious and ruthless soldiers that ran from Robert Guiscard and Bohemond to Roger II and Tancred.
Author : David Abulafia
Release : 2011-06-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Great Sea by : David Abulafia
Download or read book The Great Sea written by David Abulafia. This book was released on 2011-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters-sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims-who have crossed and re-crossed it. Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all a history of human interaction. Interweaving major political and naval developments with the ebb and flow of trade, Abulafia explores how commercial competition in the Mediterranean created both rivalries and partnerships, with merchants acting as intermediaries between cultures, trading goods that were as exotic on one side of the sea as they were commonplace on the other. He stresses the remarkable ability of Mediterranean cultures to uphold the civilizing ideal of convivencia, "living together." Now available in paperback, The Great Sea is the definitive account of perhaps the most vibrant theater of human interaction in history.
