Crusaders, Condottieri, and Cannon

L.J. Andrew Villalon, Ph.D. (1984), Yale University, is currently an Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He specializes in Late Medieval and Early Modern European History. His articles have appeared in collections and in journals, including The Catholic Historical Review, the Sixteenth Century Journal, Mediterranean Studies.

Donald J. Kagay, Ph.D. (1981), Fordham University, is an Associate Professor at Albany State University. As a specialist on medieval Spain focusing on the law and institutions of the Crown of Aragon, he has published translations of two important eastern Spanish legal texts; Usatges of Barcelona (1981) and Commemorationes of Pere Albert (2002).

Both authors have already co-edited two other collections of medieval essays The Final Argument: The Imprint of Violence on Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe and The Circle of War in the Middle Ages. Currently, they are working on their fourth volume, this one dealing with the Hundred Years War.

Military history of interest to military historians, medievalists, crusade historians, academic libraries, public libraries, specialists.

"...Villalon and Kagay deserve congratulations for putting together an excellent collection of essays."
Peter Konieczny, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2004.

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Introduction

PART ONE THE LAWS OF WAR
1. War (And Peace) in the Law Codes of Alfonso X / Joseph F. O'Callaghan
2. Secular Pragmatism and Thinking about War in Some Court Writings of Pere III el Cerimonios / David A. Cohen
3. The National Defense Clause and the Emergence of the Catalan State: Princeps Namque Revisited / Donald J. Kagay

PART TWO CRUSADERS AT WAR
4. The Siege of Damietta: Seapower in the Fifth Crusade 1217-1221 A.D. / Douglas Sterling
5. The Mongol Presence and Impact in the Lands of the Eastern Mediterranean / Timothy M. May
6. The Effect of Killing the Christian Prisoners at the Battle of Nicopolis / Kelly DeVries

PART THREE THE SPANISH RECONQUEST
7. Enemies and Allies: The crown of Aragon and Al-Andalus in the Twelfth Century / Josep-David Garrido i Valls
8. 'The King Sent Them Very Little Relief': The Castilian Siege of Algeciras, 1278-1279 / Cynthia L. Chamberlin
9. The Experience of War in Fourteenth-Century Spain: Alfonso XI and the Capture of Algeciras (1342-1344) / Nicolas Agrait

PART FOUR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA
10. An Appreciation of the War for Granada (1481-92): A Critical Link in Western Military History / Albert D. McJoynt
11. The Cannon Conquest of Nasrid Spain and the End of the Reconquista / Weston F. Cook, Jr.

PART FIVE FOURTEENTH-CENTURY WARFARE
12. 'Slaying the Hydra-Headed Beast': Italy and the Companies of Adventure in the Fourteenth Century / William Caferro
13. 'Seeking Castles in Spain': Sir Hugh Calveley and the Free Companies' Intervention in Iberian Warfare (1366-1369) / L. J. Andrew Villalon
14. The Master's Hand and the Secular Arm: Property and Discipline in the Hospital of St. John in the Fourteenth Century / Mark Dupuy

PART SIX NEW ANSWERS FOR OLD QUESTIONS
15. The Geography of Power: Matilda of Tuscany and the Strategy of Active Defense / Valerie Eads
16. Reconstructing a 'Society Organized for War' / Theresa M. Vann
17. Twelfth-Century Jewish Responses To Crusade And Jihad / Steven Bowman

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