Logistics of Warfare in the Age of the Crusades

John H. Pryor, John H. Pryor

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781351921466
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

How were the Crusades made possible? There have been studies of ancient, medieval and early modern warfare, as well as work on the finances and planning of Crusades, but this volume is the first specifically to address the logistics of Crusading. Building on previous work, it brings together experts from the fields of medieval Western, Byzantine and Middle Eastern studies to examine how the marches and voyages were actually made. Questions of manpower, types and means of transportation by land and sea, supplies, financial resources, roads and natural land routes, sea lanes and natural sailing routes - all these topics and more are covered here. Of particular importance is the attention given to the horses and other animals on which transport of supplies and the movement of armies depended.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Maps, Figures, and Tables
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Note on citations of primary sources, on Arabic, and on Geographical names
• Maps
• Chapter 1: Introduction: modelling Bohemond’s march to Thessalonikē
• Chapter 2: The logistics of the Mongol-Mamlūk war, with special reference to the battle of Wādī ’l-Khaznadār. 1299 C. E.
• Chapter 3: Crusader logistics: from victory at Nicaea to resupply at Dorylaion
• Chapter 4: Ship types and fleet composition at Genoa and Venice in the early thirteenth century
• Chapter 5: Logistics and the Second Crusade
• Chapter 6: Harbours and facilities along the eastern Mediterranean sea lanes to Outremer
• Chapter 7: Provisioning Peter the Hermit: from Cologne to 119 Constantinople, 1096
• Chapter 8: Roads and communications in the Byzantine Empire: wagons, horses, and supplies
• Chapter 9: Reflections on maps, Crusading, and logistics
• Chapter 10: Infantry in Muslim armies during the Crusades
• Chapter 11: Food and the Fourth Crusade: a new approach to the “Diversion Question”
• Chapter 12: Money and logistics in the forces of the First Crusade: coinage, bullion, service, and supply, 1096–99
• Chapter 13: The Northern Crusaders: the logistics of English and other Northern Crusader fleets
• Chapter 14: Digest
• Glossary of Technical Terminology
• Selective Gazetteer
• Consolidated Bibliography
• Index