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The crusader strategy : defending the Holy Land / Steve Tibble.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tibble, Steven, author.
- Series:
- Yale scholarship online.
- Yale scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crusades--13th-15th centuries.
- Crusades.
- Strategy--History--To 1500.
- Strategy.
- Jerusalem--History--Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244.
- Jerusalem.
- Jerusalem (Latin Kingdom)--Military policy.
- Jerusalem (Latin Kingdom).
- Middle East--Jerusalem (Latin Kingdom).
- Eretz Israel--History--1099-1291, Crusader period.
- Eretz Israel--History, Military--1099-1291, Crusader period.
- Jerusalem (Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244)--History.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 353 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- A look at the crusaders, which shows how they pursued long-term plans and clear strategic goals medieval states, and particularly crusader societies, often have been considered brutish and culturally isolated. It seems unlikely that they could develop 'strategy' in any meaningful sense. However, the crusaders were actually highly organized in their thinking and their decision making was rarely random. In this account, Steve Tibble draws on a rich array of primary sources to reassess events on the ground and patterns of behaviour over time. He shows how, from aggressive castle building to implementing a series of invasions of Egypt, crusader leaders tenaciously pursued long-term plans and devoted single-minded attention to clear strategic goals.
- Contents:
- Strategy in a medieval state : do fish need bicycles?
- Prelude : a time before strategy?
- The coastal strategy : 1099-1124
- The hinterland strategy : 1125-1153
- The Ascalon strategy : 1125-1153
- Interlude : the strategy of repression?
- The Egyptian strategy : 1154-1169
- The frontier strategy : 1170-1187
- Reflections.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 1, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9780300256291
- 0300256299
- OCLC:
- 1181839841
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