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Analyses of different aspects of the history of warfare in the Mediterranean in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would hav

First full-length analysis of Norman military organisation in the Balkans: events, strategy, and tactics.

Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this intelligent and readable study, the distinguished Crusade historian Norman Housley d

“A brilliant picture of a great medieval warrior and crusader, clear and concise, which brings to life the whole Mediterranean world in an age of crisis” (J