Warfare in the Norman Mediterranean

Front cover
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Re-examining the Narratives
1: Greek and Latin Sources for the Norman Expansion in the South:Their Value as “Military Histories” of the Warfare in the Mediterranean Sea
2: “Conquest in Their Blood”:Hauteville Ambition, Authorial Spin,and Interpretative Challenges in the Narrative Sources
3: “The Arts of Guiscard”:Trickery and Deceit in the Norman Conquests of Southern Italy and Outremer, 1000–1120
Part II: Cultural Representation and Diffusion
4: A Gift to the Normans:the Military Legacy of Sicilian Islam
5: Norman Battle Tactics in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations: Fighting Lombards,Greeks, Arabs, and Turks c.1050–c.1100
6: Venetian Reactions to the Normans of Southern Italy under Robert Guiscard:from Enmity to Congeniality
Part III: Policies of Conquest, Consolidation,and Expansion
7: The Norman Kingdom of Sicily:Projecting Power by Sea
8: Norman Participation in the First Crusade: a Re-examination Luigi R
9: Strategy, the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy, and the First Crusade
10: Disaster in the Delta? Sicilian support for the Crusades and the Siege of Alexandria, 1174
Bibliography
Index