{"product_id":"artillery-in-the-era-of-the-crusades-siege-warfare-and-the-development-of-trebuchet-technology-9789004349452","title":"Artillery in the Era of the Crusades: Siege Warfare and the Development of Trebuchet Technology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArtillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a detailed examination of the use of mechanical artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather than focus on a selection of sensational anecdotes, Michael S. Fulton explores the full scope of the available literary and archaeological evidence, reinterpreting the development of trebuchet technology and the ways in which it was used during this period. Among the arguments put forward, Fulton challenges the popular perception that the invention of the counterweight trebuchet was responsible for the dramatic transformation in the design of fortifications around the start of the thirteenth century.    See inside the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents    Foreword  List of Illustrations  Abbreviations  Names  Weights and Measures  Regional Maps    Introduction  1 Background    Classical Artillery    Terminological Issues    Early Traction Trebuchets in the Near and Middle East    Early Traction Trebuchets in Europe    Appearance of the Counterweight Trebuchet  2 Mechanics    Traction    Counterweight    The Mathematics  3 First Crusade    Nicaea: 1097    Antioch: 1097-98    Ma’arrat al-Nu’man and ‘Arqa: 1098    Jerusalem: 1099  4 Twelfth Century    The Opening Decades    Tyre: 1124    Offensives of Zanki and John Comnenus    The Second Crusade and the Ebb of Frankish Dominance    Egypt: A New Frontier    The Rise of Saladin    Transjordan  5 Third Crusade    The Hattin Campaign    Indications of Range in Western Syria and Transjordan    Saladin’s Conquest of Northern Palestine    The First Great Siege of Acre    Later Sieges of the Crusade  6 Ayyubid Period    The Fifth Crusade and New Latin Terminology    The Sixth Crusade and War on Cyprus    Continued Infighting and New Arabic Terminology    Louis IX and the Seventh Crusade    The Mongols and the War of St Sabas  7 Mamluk Period    Baybars’ Early Artillery    Indications of Significant Power: 1271    The Sultanate of Qalawun    The Second Great Siege of Acre: 1291  Plates  8 Influence of Offensive Artillery    Theories Regarding the Influence of Artillery    Siege Length    Development, Manpower and Resources    Concentricity    Wall Thickness    Entrances    Dressing    Tower Shape  9 Influence of Defensive Artillery    Ground-mounted Artillery    Tower-mounted Artillery    Possible Ayyubid Artillery Towers    Possible Frankish Artillery Towers    Possible Mamluk Artillery Towers    Other Interpretations  Conclusion    Development    Employment    Appendix  1: Mentions of Artillery    Appendix 2: Images and Technical Treatises    Appendix 3: Mathematical Scenarios    Appendix 4: Reconstructed Engines    Bibliography    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210728464727,"sku":"9789004349452","price":150.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/artillery-in-the-era-of-the-crusades-siege-warfare-and-the-development-of-trebuchet-technology-9789004349452","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}