Overview

Analyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The kingdom of Sicily plays a huge part in the history of the Norman people; their conquest brought in a new era of invasion, interaction and integration in the Mediterranean, However, much previous scholarship has tended to concentrate on their activities in England and the Holy Land. This volume aims to redress the balance by focusing on the Hautevilles, their successors and their followers. It considers the operational, tactical, technical and logistical aspects of the conduct of war in the South throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries, looking also at its impact on Italian and Sicilian multi-cultural society. Topics include the narratives of the Norman expansion, exchanges and diffusion between the ""military cultures"" of the Normans and the peoples they encountered in the South, and their varied policies of conquest, consolidation and expansion in the different operational theatres of land and sea.

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[T]he editor has brought together an interesting set of essays which have a close focus on warfare, and he has grouped them into sensible categories. . . . This is a very well-produced volume with an impressive range of pictures, a combined Bibliography and a useful index. * De Re Militari *

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Dr GEORGIOS THEOTOKIS is Lecturer at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul. Dr GEORGIOS THEOTOKIS is Lecturer at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul. JAMES TITTERTON received his PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. In addition to his work on the history of warfare, he has published on crusader rhetoric, chivalry and the medieval tournament.

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