Title War at sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by John B. Hattendorf and Richard W. Unger

Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Warfare in history Warfare in history. Contents Theories of naval power: A.T. Mahan and the naval history of medieval and renaissance Europe / John B. Hattendorf -- Naval force in the Viking age and high medieval Denmark / Niels Lund -- Scandinavian warships and naval power in the 13th and 14th centuries / Jan Bill -- Naval power and maritime technology during the hundred years' war / Timothy J. Runyan -- Oars, sails, and guns: the English and war at sea, c. 1200-1500 / Ian Friel -- Byzantium and the sea: Byzantine fleets and the history of the empire in the age of the Macedonian emperors, c. 900-1025 CE / John H. Pryor -- Iberian naval power, 1000-1650 / Lawrence V. Mott -- Venice, Genoa, and control of the seas in the 13th and 14th centuries / Michel Balard -- An exemplary maritime republic: Venice at the end of the middle ages / Bernard Doumerc -- The navies of the Medici: the Florentine navy and the navy of the sacred military order of Saint Stephen, 1547-1648 / Marco Gemignani -- The state of Portuguese naval power in the 16th century / Francisco Contendo Domingues -- Naval power in the Netherlands before the Dutch revolt / Louis Sicking -- Naval power and control of the seas in the Baltic in the 16th century / Jan Glete -- The new Atlantic: naval warfare in the 16th century / N.A.M. Rodger -- Toward a history of medieval sea power / Richard W. Unger Summary In the Renaissance European states developed standing navies. They were the product of changes over the preceding centuries in politics, technology and thinking about sea power. The fourteen authors from Europe and North America trace the forms of war at sea during the Middle Ages and show how changes in the period served as sources for the golden era of naval conflict in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Naval art and science -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 Naval art and science -- Europe -- History -- 16th century Naval history -- To 1500 Naval history -- 16th century Sea-power -- History Naval history, Modern. HISTORY -- Military -- Naval. HISTORY -- Medieval. Naval art and science Naval history Sea-power Zeeoorlog. Zeemacht. Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Hattendorf, John B., editor. Unger, Richard W., editor. LC no. 2002011117 ISBN 9781846151712 1846151716

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