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Commerce, shipping and naval warfare in the medieval Mediterranean
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ISBN: 0860782077 Year: 1987 Volume: vol 259 Publisher: London Variorum Reprints

Logistics of warfare in the age of the crusades : proceedings of a workshop held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney, 30 September to 4 October 2002
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ISBN: 0754651975 9780754651970 9781315250243 9781351921459 Year: 2006 Publisher: Hampshire, UK ; Berlington, US Ashgate

Geography, technology, and war : studies in the maritime history of the Mediterranean, 649-1571
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ISBN: 0521344247 0521428920 0511562500 Year: 1988 Volume: *58 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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When maritime transport and communication depended on muscle and wind-power, the Mediterranean Sea functioned as a symbiotic force between the civilisations which surrounded it, at once the major dividing barrier and the major connecting element. In this study, the technological limitations of maritime traffic are considered in conjunction with the peculiar geographical conditions within which it operated, and which led to the establishment of major sea lanes on trunk routes along which traffic could move safely, efficiently, and economically. These trunk routes remained virtually unchanged from antiquity to the sixteenth century, and eventually constituted economic and strategic maritime frontiers between civilisations. At the same time, the technological limitations of the oared galley meant that coasts and islands along the trunk routes had also to be held, a necessity which favoured geographically the Christian West over the world of Byzantium and Islam.


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Business contracts of medieval Provence : selected Notulae from the cartulary of Giraud Amalric of Marseilles, 1248
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Year: 1981 Publisher: Toronto Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval studies

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Geography, technology, and war : studies in the maritime history of the Mediterranean, 649-1571
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ISBN: 9780511562501 9780521344241 9780521428927 Year: 1988 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Logistics of warfare in the Age of the Crusades : proceedings of a workshop held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney, 30 September to 4 October 2002
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ISBN: 1315250241 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Peregrinationes tres : Saewulf, John of Würzburg, Theodericus
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Year: 1994 Volume: 139 Publisher: Turnholti : Brepols,

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The age of the dromon : the byzantine navy ca 500 - 1204.
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ISSN: 09285520 ISBN: 9004151974 9789004151970 9786611399559 1281399558 9047409930 9789047409939 9781281399557 6611399550 Year: 2006 Volume: v. 62 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This volume examines the development and evolution of the war galley known as the Dromon , and its relative, the Chelandion , from first appearance in the sixth century until its supercession in the twelfth century by the Galea developed in the Latin West. Beginning as a small, fully-decked, monoreme galley, by the tenth century the Dromon had become a bireme, the pre-eminent war galley of the Mediterranean. The salient features of these ships were their two-banked oarage system, the spurs at their bows which replaced the ram of classical antiquity, their lateen sails, and their primary weapon: Greek Fire. The book contextualizes the technical characteristics of the ships within the operational history of Byzantine fleets, logistical problems of medieval naval warfare, and strategic objectives. Surviving Byzantine sources, especially tactical manuals, are subjected to close literary and philological analysis.

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