Tag Archives: Military Orders

The Organisation and Support of an Expeditionary Force: Manpower and Logistics in the Middle Byzantine Period

by Sandra Alvarez Posted on May 10, 2014

The Organisation and Support of an Expeditionary Force: Manpower and Logistics in the Middle Byzantine Period John Haldon  Byzantium at War (1997)  It is generally recognised that the maintenance of its armies and the recruitment and equipping of its military expeditions … Continue reading →

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Jacques de Vitry: Sermons to a Military Order

by DRM_peter Posted on April 12, 2014

Translated by Helen J. Nicholson Sermons 37 and 38 from his sermon collection, Sermones Vulgares, ‘Sermons to the People’, published by J. B. Pitra, ed., Analecta novissima spicilegii Solesmensis: altera continuatio 2, Tusculana (Paris, 1888). This translation is copyright H. … Continue reading →

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Military Intelligence in Arabo-Byzantine Naval Warfare

by Sandra Alvarez Posted on February 16, 2014

Military Intelligence in Arabo-Byzantine Naval Warfare Vassilios, Christides To empolemo Byzantino – Byzantium at War:(Athens: Institute for Byzantine Studies, 1997) Abstract During the long Arab-Byzantine struggle for supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea from the Seventh to the fourteenth century an … Continue reading →

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Jan Duglosz, The Battle of Tannenberg or Grunwald (1410)

by Nicolas Agrait Posted on April 22, 2013

On July 15, 1410, one of the most important battles took in the later middle ages.   Fought between Tannenberg and the nearby village of Grünwald, Polish and Lithuanian forces under Ladislaus II (Wladyslaw Jagiello) halted the eastward expansion of the … Continue reading →

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