Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities : Warfare in the Middle Ages.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Notes on Arabic Transliteration and References -- Introduction -- PART ONE NOBLE IDEALS: PERCEPTIONS OF WARFARE -- "Collateral Damage?" Civilian Casualties in the Early Ideologies of Chivalry and Crusade -- Medieval Warfare and the Value of a Human Life -- Religious Campaign or War of Conquest? Muslim Views of the Motives of the First Crusade -- PART TWO BLOODY REALITIES: WAR IN PRACTICE -- Thinking about Crusader Strategy -- The Torture of Military Captives in the Crusades to the Medieval Middle East -- Holy War, Royal Wives, and Equivocation in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem -- Arming the Enemy: Non-Christians' Roles in the Military Culture of the Crown of Aragon during the Reconquista -- Communal Piracy in Medieval England's Cinque Ports -- Wartime Corruption and Complaints of the English Peasantry -- PART THREE UNTO THE BREACH: RE-EXAMINING ISSUES IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN MILITARY HISTORIOGRAPHY -- The Military Revolution and the Early Islamic State -- Byzantium, the Reluctant Warrior -- Reynald of Châtillon and the Red Sea Expedition of 1182-83 -- Index -- History of Warfare.

This collection of articles offers new insights into warfare and its impact on medieval society, analyzing social and economic issues, military strategy, technology, medical developments, ideology and rhetoric, and addressing warfare in Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world.

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