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War at sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by John B. Hattendorf and Richard W. Unger.
LIBRA V43 .W37 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Warfare in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naval art and science--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Naval art and science.
- Naval art and science--Europe--History--16th century.
- Naval history--Europe--To 1500.
- Naval history.
- Naval history--Europe--16th century.
- Sea-power--History.
- Sea-power.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Rocherster, NY : Boydell Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- The role and characteristics of armed force at sea in western Europe and the Mediterranean prior to 1650. Wide-ranging and detailed, this is the only study of its kind on this subject
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0851159036
- OCLC:
- 50253049
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