Crusaders, Condottieri, and Cannon: Medieval Warfare in Societies around the Mediterranean

Table of contents

• Crusaders, Condottieri, and Cannon *
• Title Page *
• Contents v
• List of Illustrations ix
• List of Contributors xiii
• Acknowledgments xv
• Abbreviations xvii
• Bibliography of Joseph F. O'Callaghan, 1958–1996 xix
• Introduction 1
• The Influence of Law on Society 9
• Force and Fear: A Marriage Case from Eleventh-Century Aragon 11
• Appendix A 19
• Calling Names: the Identification of Jews in Christian Documents from Medieval Toledo 21
• Shelter and Segregation: Lepers in Medieval Catalonia 35
• Peste Negra: the Fourteenth-Century Plague Epidemics in Iberia 47
• The Business of Salvation: Castilian Wills in the Late Middle Ages 63
• The Relationship Between Government and War 91
• A New Look at the Foundation of the Order of Calatrava 93
• Appendix A 114
• The Lost Kingdom of Siurana: Highland Resistance by Muslims to Christian Reconquest and Assimilation in the Twelfth Century 115
• The Reconquest During the Reign of Alfonso XI (1312–1350) 149
• The Many Crusades of Valencia's Conquest (1225–1280): An Historiographical Labyrinth 167
• The Hybrid Trebuchet: the Halfway Step to the Counterweight Trebuchet 179
• Appendix 1 217
• Appendix 2 219
• The Emergence of “parliament” in the Thirteenth-Century Crown of Aragon: A View from the Gallery 223
• Appendix I 233
• Appendix II 240
• The Council of PeÑafiel 1302: the Castilian Church's Reassertion of Its Libertas Ecclesiastica 243
• Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Stephen of Blois in England 263
• Politics Makes Uneasy Bedfellows: Henry I of England and Theobald of Blois 273
• Rulers of Medieval Spain 305
• Bibliography 313
• Index 329

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