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Fighting for the faith : the many fronts of crusade & jihad, 1000-1500 AD / David Nicolle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicolle, David, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military history, Medieval.
- War--Religious aspects.
- War.
- Jihad--History.
- Jihad.
- Crusades.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Yardley, Pa. : Westholme Pub., 2008.
- Contents:
- The Laws of War 1
- Chapter 1 The Rise of the Crusade 6
- The Struggle for the Mediterranean 7
- The Byzantine Empire 9
- Georgia and Armenia 11
- The Islamic World 12
- The Coming of the Turks 17
- Crusader Armies and Tactics 20
- Fatimid Armies and Tactics 26
- Atabegs, Saladin and the Mamluks 29
- The Armies of Iran and Eastern Islam 31
- Islamic Tactics, Strategy and Naval Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean 33
- Chapter 2 An Arc of Conflict 41
- The Struggle for Byzantium 41
- Armenia and Georgia 44
- The Crusader States of the Aegean 44
- The Sultanate of the Saljuqs of Rum 45
- From the Steppes to the Baltic 47
- Christian Iberian Armies of the Reconquista 51
- The Armies of al-Andalus 57
- Islamic Armies of North Africa 61
- Islamic Sea Power in the Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic 64
- The Mongol Onslaught 66
- Chapter 3 Expansion and Survival 70
- The Northern Crusades 70
- Islam Looks South 78
- Containing the Mongols 82
- Timur-i Lenk and the Fragmentation of the Mongol 'World Empire' 85
- The Later Mamluk Sultanate 86
- The Survival of Mother Russia 88
- The Decline of the Golden Horde 91
- Chapter 4 The Later Crusades 93
- The Completion of the Reconquista 93
- The Last Armies of al-Andalus 97
- The End of Byzantium 100
- The Christian Balkan States 105
- The Rise of the Ottoman Turks 109
- The Late Crusades in Southeastern Europe 114
- The Hospitallers 115
- The Venetian and Genoese Commercial Empires 118
- Hungary 121
- The Struggle for the Indies 123
- Chapter 5 Arms and Armour 133
- Chapter 6 Arms Trade and Arms Manufacture 138
- Western Europe 138
- The Byzantine World 141
- The Islamic World 142
- Central Asia 146
- India 147
- Africa 147
- Chapter 7 Horse Harness and Horse Armour 149
- Horse Harness 149
- Horse Armour 152
- Chapter 8 Fortification 156
- Western and Central Europe 156
- The Crusader States 159
- The Byzantine Empire 161
- Russia 163
- The Islamic World 164
- Central Asia and the Mongols 171
- India 173
- Chapter 9 Field & Camp Fortifications 175
- Chapter 10 Siege Warfare 179
- The Crusaders 181
- Byzantine Siege Warfare 183
- The Islamic World 184
- The Peoples of the Steppes 189
- India 190.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1594160619
- 9781594160615
- OCLC:
- 191766907
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