Warfare and Fortifications during the Age of the Crusades (eBook)

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List of Contributors

Chapter 1: Military Intelligence and the Two Sieges of Jerusalem, 1098 and 1099

John D. Hosler

Chapter 2: Crusader Strategy: Planning or Providence? The Case Studies of Caesarea (1101) and Tyre (1124)

Steve Tibble

Chapter 3: Head Taking and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: The Motivations for Taking Trophy Heads in the Latin East, 1097-1192

Ian J. Wilson

Chapter 4: Ayyubid Fortifications of Egypt: An Archaeological Gazetteer

Stephane Pradines

Chapter 5: "Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady": St Louis and the Battle of Mansurah

John France

Chapter 6: Antioch at Bay: The Turkmen Wars of the Mid-Thirteenth Century

Nicholas Morton

Chapter 7: Cyprus and the Defence of the Latin East, 1254-1291

Peter Edbury

Chapter 8: The Armies of the Thirteenth-Century Latin East and a Doomed Defensive Strategy

Chris Marshall

Chapter 9: Wall-less in Gaza: A Unique Case of an Unfortified Provincial Capital in Mamluk Syria

Reuven Amitai

Chapter 10: Greek Fire (Naft) in Medieval Muslim Warfare

Yaacov Lev