:Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities: Warfare in the Middle Ages

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List of Contributors Notes on Arabic Transliteration and References Introduction PART ONE: NOBLE IDEALS: PERCEPTIONS OF WARFARE Collateral Damage? Civilian Casualties in the Early Ideologies of Chivalry and Crusade David J. Hay Medieval Warfare and the Value of a Human Life Kelly DeVries Religious Campaign or War of Conquest? Muslim Views of the Motives of the First Crusade Niall Christie PART TWO: BLOODY REALITIES: WAR IN PRACTICE Thinking about Crusader Strategy John France The Torture of Military Captives in the Crusades to the Medieval Middle East Piers D. Mitchell Holy War, Royal Wives, and Equivocation in Twelfth-Century Jerusalem Deborah Gerish Arming the Enemy: Non-Christians' Roles in the Military Culture of the Crown of Aragon during the Reconquista Paula R. Stiles Communal Piracy in Medieval England's Cinque Ports David G. Sylvester Wartime Corruption and Complaints of the English Peasantry Ilana Krug PART THREE: UNTO THE BREACH: RE-EXAMINING ISSUES IN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN MILITARY HISTORIOGRAPHY The Military Revolution and the Early Islamic State Hugh Kennedy Byzantium, the Reluctant Warrior Warren Treadgold Reynald of Chatillon and the Red Sea Expedition of 1182-83 Marcus Milwright Appendix