Warriors and Their Weapons Around the Time of the Crusades: Relationships Between Byzantium, the West, and the Islamic World (Variorum Collected Studies Series, 756)

The technological relationship between the three main civilizations of the Western world - Byzantium, the Islamic world and the West - most particularly in the area of arms, armour and military technology is a field of research for which Dr Nicolle is noted. This volume deals principally with Western Europe and Byzantium, which for many centuries learnt from the Muslims in these matters; several articles also focus on military interactions in the Crusader states. The work draws upon both written and archaeological sources, but above all makes use of the depictions of war and military equipment in contemporary art to examine the interconnections across the medieval world. Medieval Warfare: The Unfriendly Interface (the Journal Of Military History, 63, Lexington, 1999) -- Byzantine And Islamic Arms And Armour: Evidence For Mutual Influence (graeco-arabic, Iv, Athens, 1991) -- No Way Overland? Evidence For Byzantine Arms And Armour On The 10th-11th Century Taurus Frontier (graeco-arabic, Vi, Athens, 1995) -- The Impact Of The European Couched Lance On Muslim Military Tradition (the Journal Of The Arms And Armour Society, Leatherhead, 1980) -- Armes Et Armures Dans Les Epopees Des Croisades (les Epopees De La Croisade, Stuttgart, 1987) -- Arms And Armour Illustrated In The Art Of The Latin East (from 'the Horns Of Hattin', Ed. B.z. Kedar, Jerusalem, 1992) -- Wounds, Military Surgery And The Reality Of Crusading Warfare; The Evidence Of Usamah's Memoires (journal Of Oriental And African Studies, 5, Athens, 1993) -- 'ain Al-habis. The Cave De Sueth (archeologie Medievale, Xviii, Rouen, 1988) -- The Monreale Capitals And The Military Equipment Of Later Norman Sicily (gladius, Xv, Madrid, 1980) -- The Cappella Palatina Ceiling And The Muslim Military Inheritance Of Norman Sicily (gladius, Xvi, Madrid, 1983) -- Arms, Armour And Horse Harnesses In The Parma Baptistery Painted Ceiling (first Publication). David Nicolle. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Series Half Title Title Copyright Contents Introduction Acknowledgements I Medieval Warfare: The Unfriendly Interface II Byzantine and Islamic Arms and Armour: Evidence for Mutual Influence III No Way Overland? Evidence for Byzantine Arms and Armour on the 10th—11th Century Taurus Frontier IV The Impact of the European Couched Lance on Muslim Military Tradition V Armes et Armures dans les Épopées des Croisades VI Arms and Armour Illustrated in the Art of the Latin East VII Wounds, Military Surgery and the Reality of Crusading Warfare; The Evidence of Usamah’s Memoires VIII ‘Ain al-Habis. The Cave de Sueth IX The Monreale Capitals and the Military Equipment of Later Norman Sicily X The Cappella Palatina Ceiling and the Muslim Military Inheritance of Norman Sicily XI Arms, Armour and Horse Harnesses in the Parma Baptistery Painted Ceiling Index