Crusader artillery, 1097-1148 : typology, terminology and character
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Colm Flynn, 'Crusader artillery, 1097-1148 : typology, terminology and character', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011, pp 369Download Item:
Abstract:
This thesis aims to investigate the use of artillery in the crusades and the crusader
states for the period starting with the 1097 siege of Nicaea and ending with the
siege of Damascus in 1148. In this forty-nine year period there are accounts of
artillery use at thirty-five sieges as well as mentions of artillery at a number of other
events - such as the civil strife that took place in Edessa while Baldwin of
Boulogne was taking control of the city and during the planning of an assault on
Sidon in 1106 that never took place. This large number of incidents provides a rich
mine of infonnation on the nature of artillery in the late eleventh and early twelfth
centuries, information which is far richer in accounts of the crusades than it is in the
accounts of contemporary events in Western Europe.
Author: Flynn, Colm
Advisor:
Robinson, IanPublisher:
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