Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Preface xi
6. Acknowledgements xiv
7. Introduction Theories of Naval Power: A. T. Mahan and the Naval History of Medieval and Renaissance Europe 1
8. I: Northern Europe
9. Naval Force in the Viking Age and High Medieval Denmark 23
10. Scandinavian Warships and Naval Power in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 35
11. Naval Power and Maritime Technology during the Hundred Years War 53
12. Oars, Sails and Guns: The English and War at Sea, c.1200–c.1500 69
13. II: Southern Europe
14. Byzantium and the Sea: Byzantine Fleets and the History of the Empire in the Age of the Macedonian Emperors, c.900–1025 CE 81
15. Iberian Naval Power, 1000–1650 105
16. Venice, Genoa and Control of the Seas in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 119
17. Genoese Naval Forces in the Mediterranean during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 137
18. An Exemplary Maritime Republic: Venice at the End of the Middle Ages 151
19. III: Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century Europe
20. The Navies of the Medici: The Florentine Navy and the Navy of the Sacred Military Order of St Stephen, 1547–1648 167
21. The State of Portuguese Naval Forces in the Sixteenth Century 187
22. Naval Power in the Netherlands before the Dutch Revolt 199
23. Naval Power and Control of the Sea in the Baltic in the Sixteenth Century 217
24. The New Atlantic: Naval Warfare in the Sixteenth Century 233
25. Conclusion: Toward a History of Medieval Sea Power 249
26. Index 263