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The Battle of Malta, 1283: Prelude to a Disaster
By Lawrence Mott
from
The Circle of War in
the Middle Ages: Essays on Medieval Military and Naval History
Edited by Donald J. Kagay and L.J. Andrew Villalon
Published by Boydell and Brewer, this collection of essays
exams different aspects of medieval warfare. They range from a
reconsideration of several problems of military historiography to
explorations of the medieval view of divine influence on the battlefield,
and the emergence of complex strategic and tactical norms of naval warfare
in the medieval Mediterranean.
Thanks to permission of Professor Mott, we are able to
republish his article:
The Battle of
Malta, 1283: Prelude to a Disaster
Other articles included in this volume:
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`Early Medieval
Military Demography: Some Observations on the Methods of Hans Delbruck'.
Bernard S, Bachrach |
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`Twelfth-Century
Frontier Strategies in the Iberian Reconquest'.
Theresa M Vann |
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`Crusader Warfare
Revisited: A Revisionist Look at R.C. Smail's Thesis - Fortifications
and Development of Defensive Planning'.
Paul E. Chevedden |
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`The `Age of
Cavalry' Reconsidered'.
Stephen R Morillo |
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`Freedom and
Military Reform in Tenth-Century Saxony'.
Edward J Schoenfeld |
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``Caelestia
Militantes': Apparitions and War in Anglo-Saxon England'.
Kent G. Hare |
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`God and Defeat in
Medieval Warfare'.
Kelly DeVries |
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`The Problem with
Mercenaries'.
Steven Isaac |
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`Anglo-Norman Women
at War: Valiant Soldiers, Prudent Strategists or Charismatic Leaders?'.
Jean A Truax |
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`Rural Populations
and the Experience of Warfare in Medieval
Lombardy:
The Case of Pavia'.
Steven G Lane
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`The Fire-Ship of
Al-Salih Ayyub and Muslim Use of `Greek Fire''.
Douglas David Haldane |
Interested readers can also consult Professor Mott's book,
Sea Power in the
Medieval Mediterranean: The Catalan-Aragonese Fleet in the War of the
Sicilian Vespers.
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