Download or read book Castles and Galleys written by Paula Martin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding feature of the Norse-Gaelic seaways is the network of dramatic castles built on or near the shore. They typically dominated main lines of sea communication, and were accessed by?birlinn? or galley. They played a central role in the Hebrides during the Hebrides? heyday, broadly from the Norse period through to the end of the Lordship of the Isles, when the islands were at the crossroads of the Norse-Gaelic world. In recent years considerable inter-disciplinary scholarly effort has gone into reinterpreting their history, dates, functions, and method of construction.0.
Download or read book Ecclesiastical Landscapes in Medieval Europe An Archaeological Perspective written by José Carlos Sánchez-Pardo and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By presenting case studies from across Eastern and Western Medieval Europe, this volume aims to open up a Europe-wide debate on the variety of relations and contexts between ecclesiastical buildings and their surrounding landscapes between the 5th and 15th centuries AD.
Download or read book Viking encounters written by Anne Pedersen and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 18th Viking Congress held in Denmark in August 2017. The contributors take up the interdisciplinary challenge, and the papers cover a wide range of subjects, rooted in the past, but also connecting to the present.
Download or read book Governing the Galleys Jurisdiction Justice and Trade in the Squadrons of the Hispanic Monarchy Sixteenth Seventeenth Centuries written by Manuel Lomas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the Spanish Navy in the early modern Mediterranean triggered a change in the balance of political and economic power for the coastal populations of the Hispanic Monarchy. The establishment of new permanent squadrons, endowed with very broad jurisdictional powers, was the cause of many conflicts with the local authorities and had a direct influence on the economic and production activities of the region. Manuel Lomas analyzes the progressive consolidation of these institutions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, their influence on the mechanisms of justice and commerce, and how they contributed to the reconfiguration of the jurisdictional system that governed the maritime trade in the Mediterranean.
Download or read book The West Highland Galley written by Denis Rixson and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an assessment of the importance of the galley in the economy of the Scottish Highlands as a means of transporting mercenaries to Ireland. It argues that surplus manpower following the Union of the Crowns became a major factor in the collapse of Scotland into civil war.
Download or read book The History of the Castle Town and Port of Dover written by Samuel Percy Hammond Statham and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Age of the written by John Pryor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the development and evolution of the war galley known as the Dromon, and its relative, the Chelandion, from first appearance in the sixth century until its supercession in the twelfth century by the Galea developed in the Latin West. Beginning as a small, fully-decked, monoreme galley, by the tenth century the Dromon had become a bireme, the pre-eminent war galley of the Mediterranean. The salient features of these ships were their two-banked oarage system, the spurs at their bows which replaced the ram of classical antiquity, their lateen sails, and their primary weapon: Greek Fire. The book contextualizes the technical characteristics of the ships within the operational history of Byzantine fleets, logistical problems of medieval naval warfare, and strategic objectives. Surviving Byzantine sources, especially tactical manuals, are subjected to close literary and philological analysis.
Download or read book The History and Legends of Old Castles Abbeys written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Castle in England and Wales written by D.J. Cathcart King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, The Castles in England and Wales is a comprehensive treatment of the archaeology of the castles in England and Wales. The books looks at how following the Norman Conquest, one of the most characteristic structures of the English landscape, the castle, was used to control and survey the population. In its simplest definition a castle is a fortified habitation, however this book looks at the many uses of castles, from their most primitive kind, intended only for periodic use, or as magnificent decoration, such as Caernarvon and other Welsh castles of Edward I. It is essential reading for all archaeologists and historians alike.
Download or read book The Chronicle of Morea written by Teresa Shawcross and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronicle of Morea, one of the most important and controversial historical narratives written in the late Middle Ages, tells the story of the formation and government by the Villehardouin dynasty of a remarkably successful Crusader State following the conquest by western invaders of the capital - Constantinople - and the provinces of the Byzantine Empire. By examining all the Chronicle's surviving Greek, French, Spanish and Italian versions, this study, the first of its kind, explores in depth the literary and ideological contexts in which the work was composed, transmitted and re-written. The result is a fascinating analysis of cultural exchange in a rich and vibrant eastern Mediterranean world where different ethnicities were obliged to live alongside each other, and outside political interests frequently intruded in dramatic fashion. Translations into English have been provided of all the material discussed.
Download or read book The Levant Voyage of the Blackham Galley 1696 1698 written by Colin Heywood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume publishes for the first time, the journal kept by John Looker (?1670—1715) recording his service as ship’s surgeon on the Blackham Galley, a London-built merchantman on its second trading voyage to the Levant, between December 1696 and March 1698. Preserved in the Caird Library of the National Maritime Museum, Looker’s ‘Journall’ describes his experiences on the voyage from the point at which he joined the ship at Gravesend, to March 1698, when the journal breaks off abruptly in mid-sentence when the ship was off the Kentish ‘Narrows’. John Looker was a Londoner, brought up in one of the parishes to the east of the City which furnished large numbers of mariners to the English sea-borne trades. He served an apprenticeship to a London barber-surgeon, and became a Freeman of the Company of Barber-Surgeons. His fifteen months of service on board the Blackham Galley appears to have been his only employment at sea, but his ready knowledge of maritime ways and language, which are apparent from the first pages of his ‘Journall’, make it more than likely that he came from a seafaring family. Subsequent to his voyage, he married, raised a family, practiced in London as a surgeon, and acquired land in East Anglia. He died at Bath in 1715. Looker’s ‘Journall’ divides naturally into three parts. The Blackham Galley’s outward and homeward voyages were largely without incident. The time spent by the Blackham Galley in Turkish waters, covers its voyage from Smyrna to Constantinople, where the ship stayed for a month, and then returned to Smyrna. Captain Newnam’s ill-advised and disastrous attempt at privateering in Ottoman waters on the return journey to Smyrna, led to the detention of his vessel at Smyrna under a double interdict from the English ambassador at the Porte and from the Ottoman authorities. Looker’s account of the Blackham Galley’s enforced stay in Smyrna furnishes a vigorous and detailed account of social life in the international merchant community, as well as portside life seen ‘from below’, with its taverns and prostitutes, and the activities and frequent ‘debauches’ of an increasingly bored and fractious crew. Looker’s record also provides interesting detail of his professional approach to treatment of the illnesses, accidents and occasional deaths of members of the company of his own and other ships anchored off Smyrna.
Download or read book Calendar of Letters Despatches and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations Between England and Spain written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Guernsey and Its Bailiwick written by Ferdinand Brock Tupper and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Images of the Turk in Italy written by Mustafa Soykut and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Islamkundliche Untersuchungen was founded in 1969 by the Klaus Schwarz Verlag. Since then, it has become one of the most important venues for publications in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Its more than 350 volumes cover a wide range of topics from the history, culture and societies of the Middle East and North Africa as well as neighboring regions in central, south and southeast Asia.
Download or read book Calendar of Letters Despatches and State Papers Relating to the Negotiations Between England and Spain Preserved in the Archives at Simancas and Elsewhere Henry VIII 1509 1546 12 v written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Castles of Ireland Some Fortress Histories and Legends written by Constance Louisa Adams and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book by Constance Louisa Adams, we explore some of the greatest landmarks in Ireland. "The Castles of Ireland are far too numerous for any single volume to contain their separate histories," but Adams does an amazing job of recounting the history and construction to the ones named within this volume.
