Warfare, Crusade and Conquest in the Middle Ages

Close order and close quarter : the culture of combat in the West -- Property, warfare and Renaissance of the twelfth century -- A changing balance : cavalry and infantry, 1000-1300 -- The composition and raising of the armies of Charlemagne -- The military history of the Carolingian period -- The occasion of the coming of the Normans to southern Italy -- The battle of Carcano : the event and its importance -- Holy war and holy men : Erdmann and the lives of the saints -- Patronage and the appeal of the First Crusade -- The departure of Tatikios from the crusader army -- The crisis of the First Crusade : from the defeat of Kerbogah to the departure from Arqa -- Two types of vision on the First Crusade : Stephen of Valence and Peter Bartholemew -- The election and title of Godfrey de Bouillon -- The First Crusade as a naval enterprise -- Arab Muslim reactions to Turkish authority in northern Syria, 1085-1128 / with Nic Morton [first publication] -- Logistics and the Second Crusade -- Warfare in the Mediterranean region in the age of the crusades, 1095-1291 : a clash of contrasts -- Surrender and capitulation in the Middle East in the age of the crusades