The art of siege warfare and military architecture from the classical world to the middle ages / edited by Michael Eisenberg and Rabei Khamisy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eisenberg, Michael, editor.

Khamisy, Rabei, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Siege warfare--History--To 1500.

Siege warfare.

Military architecture--History--To 1500.

Military architecture.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1 The Early 5th-Century BCE Fort of Larisa East (Aeolis) as Part of a Multi-Centred Defence System p. 3 / Ilgin Külekçi and Turgut Saner

2 The Layout of a Late Classical Fortress in Eastern Sicily: The Military Outpost on Monte Turcisi (CT) p. 11 / Melanie Jonasch and Claudia Winterstein

3 Strategy Versus Representation? The Late Classical City Wall of Messene p. 21 / Silke Müth

4 Apertures and Shutters at the Towers of Ancient Messene p. 33 / Ioannis Nakas

5 Interpreting the Greek Fortifications in Thrace in the 5th-2nd Century BCE: Conflicts or Collaborations? p. 39 / Aliénor Rufin Solas

6 'Dig for Victory'! Competitive Fieldwork in Classical Siege Operations p. 45 / Gwyn Davies

7 Fortifying a Buffer Region: The City Walls in Triphylia, Greece p. 55 / Elke Richter

8 Excavating the Hellenistic Fortification of Vergina, Northern Greece p. 63 / Vassiliki G. Stamatopoulou

9 The Hellenistic Fortification of Seleukeia Gadara (Umm Qays): Form, Function and Origin of the Military Architecture at the Southern Edge of the Seleucid Empire p. 73 / Brita Jansen

10 The Siege Wall at Mudayna as-Saliya in Central Jordan p. 81 / Chang-Ho Ji and Chaim Ben-David

11 The Development and Function of the East Gate in Side, Pamphylia p. 91 / Ute Lohner-Urban

12 The Starting Point of the Imperial Roads in Aelia Capitolina p. 101 / Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah and Danit Levi

13 Regional Fortifications in the Chora of Hippos (Sussita) p. 111 / Adam Pazout

14 The Extraordinary Roman Military Presence in Judaea from AD 70 until the 3rd Century p. 119 / Werner Eck

15 Securing the Hostile Hinterland: The Roman Fort at Gracine and the Defences of Narona p. 129 / Tomasz Dziurdzik and Anna Mech

16 Fortifications of Nicaea: The Defensive Features of a 3rd-Century CE Rampart and their Transformation Throughout History p. 137 / Ayse Dalyanci-Berns

17 Caesarea Maritima: Fortifications and City Expansion from the Time of Herod the Great to Late Antiquity p. 143 / Peter Gendelman

18 Habonim-Kafr Lam: A Ribat of the Levantine Coastal Defensive System in the First Centuries of Islam p. 153 / Hervé Barbé and Itamar Taxel

19 Countermeasures: The Destruction of Siege Equipment at Acre, 1189-1191 p. 165 / John D. Hosler

20 Crusader Coastal Fortifications: Preventing Longshore Raids in the Shallows, While Keeping the Sea Approach Open and Safe p. 175 / Ehud Galili and Sarah Arenson

21 Three Main Towers of Medieval Caesarea: Their Architecture and Function p. 189 / Vardit Shotten-Hallel and Jean Mesqui and Uzi 'Ad

22 Battlefield Archaeology at Tannenberg (Grunwald, Zalgiris): Physical Remains of the Defeat of the Teutonic Order in Prussia in 1410 p. 213 / Sven Ekdahl

23 Contra Multitudinem Ruthenorum Armatorum: The Russian-Livonian Battle of Lake Smolino (1502) Reconsidered p. 227 / Alexander Baranov.

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

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ISBN:

9781789254075

1789254078

9781789254099

1789254094

Publisher Number:

99988331192

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