Introduction - Georgios Theotokis
Greek and Latin sources for the Norman expansion in the South:
their value as "military histories" of the warfare in the
Mediterranean Sea - Georgios Theotokis
"Conquest in Their Blood": Hauteville Ambition, Authorial Spin and
Interpretive Challenges in the Narrative Sources - Francesca
Petrizzo
"The Arts of Guiscard": Trickery and Deceit in the Norman Conquests
of Southern Italy and Outremer, 1000-1120 - James Titterton
A Gift to the Normans - The Military Legacy of Sicilian Islam -
David Nicolle
Norman battle tactics in the Mediterranean theatre of operations:
fighting Lombards, greeks, Arabs, and Turks c.1050-c.1100 - Matthew
Bennett
Venetian Reactions to the Normans of southern Italy under Robert
Guiscard - from Enmity to Congeniality - Serban V. Marin
The Norman Kingdom of Sicily: Projecting Power by Sea - Charles D.
Stanton
Norman Participation in the First Crusade: a re-examination - Luigi
Russo
Strategy, the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy, and the First
Crusade - Daniel P. Franke
Disaster in the Delta? Sicilian support for the Crusades and the
Siege of Alexandria, 1174 - Michael S. Fulton
Bibliography
Index
Dr GEORGIOS THEOTOKIS is Lecturer at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul. Dr GEORGIOS THEOTOKIS is Lecturer at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul. JAMES TITTERTON received his PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. In addition to his work on the history of warfare, he has published on crusader rhetoric, chivalry and the medieval tournament.
[T]he editor has brought together an interesting set of essays
which have a close focus on warfare, and he has grouped them into
sensible categories. . . . This is a very well-produced volume with
an impressive range of pictures, a combined Bibliography and a
useful index.
*De Re Militari*
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