Georgios Theotokis, Ph.D in History (2010, University of Glasgow), is a historian specialising in the military history of the eastern Mediterranean. His first monograph was on the Norman Campaigns in the Balkans 1081–1108 (2014), while his second book on the Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria in the 10th century will be out in the autumn of 2018.Aysel Yıldız, Ph.D. in History (2008, Sabancı University). Specialization in late Ottoman history and palaeography, with a special focus on political and military history and social movements. She is the editor of the book titled Asiler ve Gaziler: Kabakçı Mustafa Risalesi (2007) and the author of Crisis and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire: The Downfall of a Sultan in the Age of Revolution (2017).

"...There is much that is strikingly original here, not just the research itself but also the volume’s synergy, and for that and many other reasons the editors deserve accolades."Mark Charles Fissel, Augusta University in De Re Militari, posted September 22, 2018 (http://deremilitari.org/2018/09/georgios-theotokis-and-aysel-yildiz-eds-a-military-history-of-the-mediterranean-sea-aspects-of-war-diplomacy-and-military-elites-fissel/)

• ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: War, Warfare, and the Mediterranean Military HistoryPart 1: Naval Activity1 The Byzantine War Navy and the West, Fifth to Twelfth CenturiesT.C. Lounghis2 The Defence of the Venetian Dominio Da Mar in the Sixteenth Century: Ship Design, Naval Architecture, and the Naval Career of Vettor Fausto’s QuinqueremeLilia Campana3 Sea Power and the Ottomans in the Early Modern Mediterranean WorldElina Gugliuzzo4 Conflict and Collaboration: The Spanish and Ottoman Navies in the Mediterranean, 1453-1923Wayne H. BowenPart 2: Weapons & Armour5 A Sixth or Early Seventh Century Ad Iconography of Roman Military Equipment in Egypt: The Deir Abou Hennis FrescoesRaffaele D’Amato6 Σωκος: An Unusual Byzantine WeaponGeorgios Theotokis7 Post-Byzantine Art and Western Influences in Military Iconography: The Case of Staff Weapons in the Work of Michael DamaskenosIason-Eleftherios TzouriadisPart 3: Strategy & Command8 The Middle Ground: The Passage of Crusade Armies to The Holy Land By Land and Sea (1096-1204)Alan V. Murray9 The Theory of the Passagium Particulare: A Commercial Blockade of the Mediterranean in the Early Fourteenth Century?Cornel Bontea10 Faith and Authority: Guy of Lusignan at the Battle of Acre (4th October 1189)Stephen Bennett11 By the Sword or by an Oath: Siege Warfare in the Latin East 1097-1131Ian WilsonPart 4: Military Literature12 Late Byzantine Elites and Military Literature: Authors, Readers and Manuscripts (c.1050-c.1450)Philip Rance13 The Byzantine Influence on the Military Writings of Theodore I Palaiologos, Marquis of MontferratNikolaos Kanellopoulos14 Warfare in the Histories of John KantakouzenosSavvas KyriakidisPart 5: Military Roles within Society15 Stradioti, Cappelletti, Compagnie or Milizie Greche: ‘Greek’ Mounted and Foot Mercenary Companies in the Venetian State (Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)Stathis Birtachas16 A Secret War: Espionage in Venetian Corfu during the Construction of the San Marco FortressChrysobalantis Papadamou17 “Rather the Wealth to Support Their Status than Their Quality as Soldiers”. The Social Position of the Officers in Lucca’s Ordinanze Della Montagna, 1550-1600Jacopo Pessina18 Commanders of the Janissary Army: The Janissary Ağas, Their Career and Promotion PatternsAysel YildizIndex

Georgios Theotokis, Ph.D in History (2010, University of Glasgow), is a historian specialising in the military history of the eastern Mediterranean. His first monograph was on the Norman Campaigns in the Balkans 1081–1108 (2014), while his second book on the Byzantine Military Tactics in Syria in the 10th century will be out in the autumn of 2018.Aysel Yıldız, Ph.D. in History (2008, Sabancı University). Specialization in late Ottoman history and palaeography, with a special focus on political and military history and social movements. She is the editor of the book titled Asiler ve Gaziler: Kabakçı Mustafa Risalesi (2007) and the author of Crisis and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire: The Downfall of a Sultan in the Age of Revolution (2017).

"...There is much that is strikingly original here, not just the research itself but also the volume’s synergy, and for that and many other reasons the editors deserve accolades."Mark Charles Fissel, Augusta University in De Re Militari, posted September 22, 2018 (http://deremilitari.org/2018/09/georgios-theotokis-and-aysel-yildiz-eds-a-military-history-of-the-mediterranean-sea-aspects-of-war-diplomacy-and-military-elites-fissel/)

• ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: War, Warfare, and the Mediterranean Military HistoryPart 1: Naval Activity1 The Byzantine War Navy and the West, Fifth to Twelfth CenturiesT.C. Lounghis2 The Defence of the Venetian Dominio Da Mar in the Sixteenth Century: Ship Design, Naval Architecture, and the Naval Career of Vettor Fausto’s QuinqueremeLilia Campana3 Sea Power and the Ottomans in the Early Modern Mediterranean WorldElina Gugliuzzo4 Conflict and Collaboration: The Spanish and Ottoman Navies in the Mediterranean, 1453-1923Wayne H. BowenPart 2: Weapons & Armour5 A Sixth or Early Seventh Century Ad Iconography of Roman Military Equipment in Egypt: The Deir Abou Hennis FrescoesRaffaele D’Amato6 Σωκος: An Unusual Byzantine WeaponGeorgios Theotokis7 Post-Byzantine Art and Western Influences in Military Iconography: The Case of Staff Weapons in the Work of Michael DamaskenosIason-Eleftherios TzouriadisPart 3: Strategy & Command8 The Middle Ground: The Passage of Crusade Armies to The Holy Land By Land and Sea (1096-1204)Alan V. Murray9 The Theory of the Passagium Particulare: A Commercial Blockade of the Mediterranean in the Early Fourteenth Century?Cornel Bontea10 Faith and Authority: Guy of Lusignan at the Battle of Acre (4th October 1189)Stephen Bennett11 By the Sword or by an Oath: Siege Warfare in the Latin East 1097-1131Ian WilsonPart 4: Military Literature12 Late Byzantine Elites and Military Literature: Authors, Readers and Manuscripts (c.1050-c.1450)Philip Rance13 The Byzantine Influence on the Military Writings of Theodore I Palaiologos, Marquis of MontferratNikolaos Kanellopoulos14 Warfare in the Histories of John KantakouzenosSavvas KyriakidisPart 5: Military Roles within Society15 Stradioti, Cappelletti, Compagnie or Milizie Greche: ‘Greek’ Mounted and Foot Mercenary Companies in the Venetian State (Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)Stathis Birtachas16 A Secret War: Espionage in Venetian Corfu during the Construction of the San Marco FortressChrysobalantis Papadamou17 “Rather the Wealth to Support Their Status than Their Quality as Soldiers”. The Social Position of the Officers in Lucca’s Ordinanze Della Montagna, 1550-1600Jacopo Pessina18 Commanders of the Janissary Army: The Janissary Ağas, Their Career and Promotion PatternsAysel YildizIndex