Naval Warfare

Sources

Naval Battle off of Acre (1190) - added November 18, 2002

A Naval battle between Pisa and Genoa, 1284

Naval Contract by the Papacy against the Turks (1334)

The French Chronicle of London on the battle of Sluys and the siege of Tournai

The City of London builds a warship, 1373 

 

Articles

Christides, Vassilios, Military Intelligence in Arabo-Byzantine Naval Warfare - from Byzantium at War (1997) - added February 14, 2003

DeVries, Kelly, God, leadership, Flemings and Archery: Contemporary Perspectives of Victory and Defeat at the Battle of Sluys 1340 - from American Neptune v.55 (1995) - added June 17, 2003 (PDF file)

Ditchburn, David, Bremen Piracy and Scottish Periphery: The North Sea World in the 1440s - from Ships, Guns and Bibles in the North Sea and the Baltic States, c.1350-c.1700 (2000) - added January 27, 2003

Dotson, John E., Fleet Operations in the First Genoese-Venetian War, 1264-1266 - from Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies v.30 (1999) - added August 20, 2002

Dotson, John E., Foundations of Venetian Naval Strategy from Pietro II Orseoto to the Battle of Zoncho, 1000-1500 - from Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies v.32 (2001) - added February 28, 2002 

Doxey, Gary B., Norwegian Crusaders and the Balearic Islands - from Scandinavian Studies, v.68:2, (Spring, 1996) - (PDF file) - added January, 20, 2002

Guilmartin, John F., The Weapons of Sixteenth Century Warfare at Sea - from chapter 4 of Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century (1974) - added December 24, 2002 

Guilmartin, John F., The Tactics of the Battle of Lepanto Clarified: The Impact of Social, Economic, and Political Factors on Sixteenth Century Galley Warfare - from  New Aspects of Naval History: Selected Papers Presented at the Fourth Naval History Symposium, United States Naval Academy 25-26 October 1979. (1981) - added December 24, 2002 

Guilmartin, John F., The Galley in Combat - from MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, v.9 n. 2, (1997) - added December 24, 2002

Guilmartin, John F., Lepanto: The Battle that Saved Christendom? - from a conference paper given at Autour de Lépante: Guerre et Géostratégie en Méditerranée au Tournant des XVIe et XVIIe Siecles, (2001) - added December 24, 2002

Guilmartin, John F., Caravels and Carracks - from chapter 3 of Galleons and Galleys: Gunpowder and the Changing Face of Warfare at Sea, 1300-1650 (2002) - added December 24, 2002

Jorgensen, Anne Norgard, Military organisation and sea-defence in Denmark, 200-1200 AD - from Military Studies in Medieval Europe (1997) - added August 23, 2002 - (PDF file)

Mayer, Hans Eberhard, A Ghost Ship called Frankenef: King Richard I's German Itinerary - from English Historical Reivew v.115 (2000) - added July 15, 2002

Queller, Donald E., and Katele, Irene B., Venice and the Conquest of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem - from Studi Veneziani v.21 (1986) - added September 5, 2002

Robbert, Louise Buengar, Venetian Participation in the Crusade of Damietta - from Studi Veneziani v.30 (1995) - added September 5, 2002

Runyan, T.J., Ships and Fleets in Anglo-French Warfare, 1337-1360 -  from American Neptune v.46 (1986) - added July 17, 2002

Soucek, Svat, The Ottomans and Their Rivals, Galleys and Galleons, Portolan Charts and Isolarii - from Piri Reis & Turkish Mapmaking After Columbus: The Khalili Portolan Atlas (1995) - added January 1, 2003

 

Book Reviews

Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse, by Judith Jesch - reviewed by Susan Rose

Ships and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscription and Skaldic Verse, by Judith Jesch - reviewed by Eric Christiansen (English Historical Review)

Medieval Naval Warfare, by Susan Rose - reviewed by John France  

 

External Web Sites

http://www.angelfire.com/ga4/guilmartin.com/index.html - Website of John F. Guilmartin, Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University

 

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