Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. 1 Baktash the Forgotten: The Battle of Tell Bashir (1108) and the Saljuq Civil Wars 1
5. 2 The External Fortifications of ʿAtlit Castle, the Only Unconquered Crusader Stronghold in the Holy Land 21
6. 3 Holy Warriors, Worldly War: Military Religious Orders and Secular Conflict 61
7. 4 Elionor of Sicily: A Mediterranean Queen’s Two Lives of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War 81
8. 5 Wives, Mistresses, Lovers, and Daughters: The Fortunes of War for Royal Women in Late Fourteenth-Century Castile or A Gender Limitation on Writing History from Chronicles 103
9. 6 The Lance in the Fifteenth Century: How French Cavalry Overcame the English Defensive System in the Latter Part of the Hundred Years War 141
10. 7 Supplying the Army, 1498: The Florentine Campaign in the Pisan Countryside 201
11. 8 Fencing, Martial Sport, and Urban Culture in Early Modern Germany: The Case of Strasbourg 237
12. 9 Note: An Army on the March and in Camp – Guillaume Guiart’s Branche des royaus lingnages 259
13. List of Contributors 273