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Artillery in the era of the Crusades : siege warfare and the development of trebuchet technology /
"Artillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a detailed examination of the use of mechanical artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather than focus on a selection of sensational anecdotes, Michael S. Fulton explores the full scope of the available literary and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
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| Colección: | History of warfare ;
volume 122 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Foreword; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Names; Weights and Measures; Regional Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1; Background; Classical Artillery; Terminological Issues; Early Traction Trebuchets in the Near and Middle East; Early Byzantine Trebuchets; Early Muslim Trebuchets; Later Byzantine and Muslim Artillery; Early Traction Trebuchets in Europe; Appearance of the Counterweight Trebuchet; Origin of the Counterweight Trebuchet; Frankish Terminology; Muslim Terminology; Chapter 2; Mechanics; Traction; Hybrid; Counterweight; The Mathematics; Mathematical Abbreviations
- Energy SystemMechanical System; Ideal Proportions; Chapter 3; First Crusade; Nicaea: 1097; Antioch: 1097-98; Ma'arrat al-Nu'man and 'Arqa: 1098; Jerusalem: 1099; The Franks' Artillery; The Muslims' Artillery; Chapter 4; Twelfth Century; The Opening Decades; The Palestinian Coast; The North; Jaffa: 1123; Tyre: 1124; Havedic; Offensives of Zanki and John Comnenus; Al-Sawr: 1134; Montferrand: 1137; Antioch: 1137; Shayzar: 1138; Banyas: 1140; Edessa: 1144; The Second Crusade and the Ebb of Frankish Dominance; Lisbon: 1147; Ascalon: 1153; Banyas: 1157; Shayzar and Harim: 1157
- Egypt: A New FrontierAlexandria: 1167; Damietta: 1169; Alexandria: 1174; Harim: 1177; The Rise of Saladin; Jacob's Ford: 1179; Beirut: 1182; Mosul and Amida: 1182-83; Transjordan; Defences of Kerak; Early Sieges: 1170-73; Kerak: 1183; Kerak: 1184; Kerak and Counterweight Artillery; Kerak: 1187; Chapter 5; Third Crusade; The Hattin Campaign; Ascalon: 1187; Jerusalem: 1187; Tyre: 1187; Eastern Galilee: 1188; Indications of Range in Western Syria and Transjordan; Saone: 1188; Shughr-Bakas: 1188; Bourzey: 1188; The Syrian Gates: 1188; The Absence of Artillery in Transjordan
- The Significance of RangeSaladin's Conquest of Northern Palestine; Safed: 1188; Belvoir: Dec 1188; The First Great Siege of Acre; First Phase: 1189-90; Second Phase: 1190; Third Phase: 1191; Legacy; Later Sieges of the Crusade; Darum: 1192; Jaffa: 1192; Chapter 6; Ayyubid Period; The Fifth Crusade and New Latin Terminology; Mount Tabor: 1217; Damietta: 1218-19; Artillery at Damietta; The Coptic Account; The Push to Mansura: 1221; 'Atlit and Caesarea: 1218-20; The Sixth Crusade and War on Cyprus; Kantara, Beirut and Kyrenia: 1229-33; Continued Infighting and New Arabic Terminology
- Jerusalem: 1239Beaufort: 1240; Tyre: 1243; 'Ajlun: 1243/44; The Consequences of Forbie; Ascalon: 1247; Homs: 1248-49; Louis IX and the Seventh Crusade; The Aftermath of Defeat in Egypt; The Mongols and the War of St Sabas; Mongols; The War of St Sabas; Chapter 7; Mamluk Period; Baybars' Early Artillery; Caesarea: 1265; Arsuf: 1265; Safed: 1266; Beaufort: 1268; Antioch: 1268; Indications of Significant Power: 1271; Crac des Chevaliers: 1271; 'Akkar: 1271; Montfort: 1271; The Sultanate of Qalawun; Margat: 1285; Maraclea: 1285; Saone: 1287; Tripoli: 1289; The Second Great Siege of Acre: 1291