An absorbing and important volume.

• Introduction: Theories of Naval Power - John B. HattendorfNaval Force in the Viking Age and High Medieval Denmark - Niels LundScandinavian Warships and Naval Power in the 13th and 14th centuries - Jan BillNaval Power and Maritime Technology during the Hundred Years' War - Timothy J RunyanOars, Sails and Guns: The English and War at Sea, c.1200-1500 - Ian FrielByzantium and the Sea: Byzantine Fleets and the History of The Empire in the Age of the Macedonian Emperors, c.900-1025 - John PryorIberian Naval Power, 1000-1650 - Lawrence V MottVenice, Genoa and Control of the Seas in the 13th and 14th Centuries - John DotsonGenoese Naval Forces in the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th Centuries - Michel BalardAn Exemplary Maritime Republic: Venice at the End of the Middle Ages - Bernard DoumercThe Navies of the Medici: The Florentine Navy and the Navy of the Sacred Military Order of Saint Stephen, 1547-1648 - Marco GemignaniThe State of Portuguese Naval Power in the 16th Century - Francisco C DominguesNaval Power in the Netherlands before the Dutch Revolt - Louis SickingNaval Power and Control of the Seas in the Baltic in the 16th Century - Jan GleteThe New Atlantic: Naval Warfare in the 16th Century - N A M RodgerConclusion: Toward a History of Medieval Sea Power - Richard W. Unger

An absorbing and important volume.

• Introduction: Theories of Naval Power - John B. HattendorfNaval Force in the Viking Age and High Medieval Denmark - Niels LundScandinavian Warships and Naval Power in the 13th and 14th centuries - Jan BillNaval Power and Maritime Technology during the Hundred Years' War - Timothy J RunyanOars, Sails and Guns: The English and War at Sea, c.1200-1500 - Ian FrielByzantium and the Sea: Byzantine Fleets and the History of The Empire in the Age of the Macedonian Emperors, c.900-1025 - John PryorIberian Naval Power, 1000-1650 - Lawrence V MottVenice, Genoa and Control of the Seas in the 13th and 14th Centuries - John DotsonGenoese Naval Forces in the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th Centuries - Michel BalardAn Exemplary Maritime Republic: Venice at the End of the Middle Ages - Bernard DoumercThe Navies of the Medici: The Florentine Navy and the Navy of the Sacred Military Order of Saint Stephen, 1547-1648 - Marco GemignaniThe State of Portuguese Naval Power in the 16th Century - Francisco C DominguesNaval Power in the Netherlands before the Dutch Revolt - Louis SickingNaval Power and Control of the Seas in the Baltic in the 16th Century - Jan GleteThe New Atlantic: Naval Warfare in the 16th Century - N A M RodgerConclusion: Toward a History of Medieval Sea Power - Richard W. Unger

An absorbing and important volume.

• Introduction: Theories of Naval Power - John B. HattendorfNaval Force in the Viking Age and High Medieval Denmark - Niels LundScandinavian Warships and Naval Power in the 13th and 14th centuries - Jan BillNaval Power and Maritime Technology during the Hundred Years' War - Timothy J RunyanOars, Sails and Guns: The English and War at Sea, c.1200-1500 - Ian FrielByzantium and the Sea: Byzantine Fleets and the History of The Empire in the Age of the Macedonian Emperors, c.900-1025 - John PryorIberian Naval Power, 1000-1650 - Lawrence V MottVenice, Genoa and Control of the Seas in the 13th and 14th Centuries - John DotsonGenoese Naval Forces in the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th Centuries - Michel BalardAn Exemplary Maritime Republic: Venice at the End of the Middle Ages - Bernard DoumercThe Navies of the Medici: The Florentine Navy and the Navy of the Sacred Military Order of Saint Stephen, 1547-1648 - Marco GemignaniThe State of Portuguese Naval Power in the 16th Century - Francisco C DominguesNaval Power in the Netherlands before the Dutch Revolt - Louis SickingNaval Power and Control of the Seas in the Baltic in the 16th Century - Jan GleteThe New Atlantic: Naval Warfare in the 16th Century - N A M RodgerConclusion: Toward a History of Medieval Sea Power - Richard W. Unger