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The cutting-edge papers in this collection come from some of the most distinguished practitioners world-wide in the fields of Crusading history and the maritime history of the medieval Mediterranean. Issues covered include ship construction, navigation and harbourage issues in the eastern Mediterranean, trade in Fatimid Egypt and along the Iberian peninsula, military and social issues arising during Crusade field campaigns, and much more.

This volume examines the development and evolution of the war galley known as the Dromon , and its relative, the Chelandion , from first appearance in the sixth century until its supercession in the twelfth century by the Galea developed in the Latin West. Beginning as a small, fully-decked, monoreme galley, by the tenth century the Dromon had become a bireme, the pre-eminent war galley of the Mediterranean. The salient features of these ships were their two-banked oarage system, the spurs at their bows which replaced the ram of classical antiquity, their lateen sails, and their primary weapon: Greek Fire. The book contextualizes the technical characteristics of the ships within the operational history of Byzantine fleets, logistical problems of medieval naval warfare, and strategic objectives. Surviving Byzantine sources, especially tactical manuals, are subjected to close literary and philological analysis

Prolegomena to a world history of the harbour and river chain / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- The socio-economic implications for ship construction : evidence from underwater archaeology and the Codex Theodosianus / Hadas Mor -- An unpublished medieval portolan of the Mediterranean in Minneapolis / David Jacoby -- Difficult sources : crusader art and the depiction of ships / Richard W. Unger -- Les vices et la criminalité des marins vénitiens à bord des navires vers la Mer Noire, XIVe-XVe siècles / Sergei Karpov -- Byzantine shipbuilding in fifteenth-century Venetian Crete : war galleys and the link to the Arsenal in Venice / Ruthy Gertwagen -- A Mediterranean encounter : the Fatimids and Europe, tenth to twelfth centuries / Yaacov Lev -- Local trade networks in medieval Sicily : the evidence of Idrisi / David Abulafia -- Aspects of intercoastal trade in the western Mediterranean : the voyage of the Santa María de Natzare / Lawrence V. Mott -- Brevi note su Pera genovese a metà del xiv secolo / Laura Balletto -- Genoa and Barcelona : two hypotheses for a "global" world / Gabriella Airaldi -- The crusader march from Dorylaion to Herakleia, 4 July-ca. 2 september 1097 / Bernard S. Bachrach -- Sex, death and the problem of single women in the armies of the First Crusade / Alan V. Murray -- Caffaro, Crusade, and the Annales Januensis : history and its uses in twelfth-century Genoa / John Dotson -- Mercenaries and Capuchins in southern France in the late twelfth century / John France -- Memory and the diversion of the Fourth Crusade / Thomas F. Madden -- The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade / Mark Gregory Pegg -- The importance of Greeks in Latin thought : the evidence of Roger Bacon / Amanda Power -- The roles of hospitaller and templar sergeants / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- Buondelmonti and the Holy War / Michel Balard

Preliminary Material /Elizabeth Jeffreys , Brian Croke and Roger Scott -- Malalas, the man and his work /Brian Croke -- Byzantine chronicle writing /Brian Croke -- Malalas' world view /Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Malalas and his contemporaries /Roger Scott -- A record of public buildings and monuments /Ann Moffatt -- Chronological structures in the chronicle /Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Malalas' sources /Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Language of Malalas /Alan James -- The transmission of Malalas' chronicle /Elizabeth Jeffreys -- The development of a critical text /Brian Croke -- Modem study of Malalas /Brian Croke -- Conclusion /Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Passages cited from Malalas /Elizabeth Jeffreys -- Index /Elizabeth Jeffreys , Brian Croke and Roger Scott.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Preface -- Book 1 The Time of Adam -- Book 2 -- Book 3 The Time of Abraham's Knowledge of God -- Book 4 The Time of the Empire in the Land of the Argives -- Book 5 The Time of the Trojans -- Book 6 The Time of the Empire of the Assyrians and of Askanios, son of Aineias -- Book 7 Concerning the Building of Rome -- Book 8 The Time of the Macedonians -- Book 9 The Time of the Consuls of Rome -- Book 10 The Time of the Reign of Augustus -- Book 11 The Time of the Emperor Trajan and the Third Calamity at Antioch -- Book 12 The Time of the Emperor Commodus and the Staging of the Olympics -- Book 13 The Time of the Emperor Constantine -- Book 14 The Reign of Theodosius the Younger to the Reign of Leo the Younger -- Book 15 The Time of the Reign of Zeno to the Time of the Reign of Anastasios -- Book 16 The Time of the Emperor Anastasios -- Book 17 The Time of the Emperor Justin -- Book 18 The Time of the Emperor Justinian -- Maps -- Indices.