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On War On Board: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Early Modern Maritime Violence and Warfare (ed. Johan Rönnby)
An Introduction to Hand-to-Hand Combat at Sea: General Characteristics and Shipborne Technologies from c. 1210 BCE to 1600 CE
2019 •
Rolf Warming
The aim of this chapter is to clarify the general role and nature of hand-to-hand combat practices in European naval warfare before its decline in the early modern period. More specifically, this chapter seeks to establish the fact that the practice of naval hand-to-hand combat expresses itself in history conjointly with careful tactical considerations as well as an awareness of the principles that govern the proceedings of seaborne combat. To this end, the chapter will be divided into two parts. The first will consider the question of what characterizes naval hand-to-hand combat and discuss the environmental and cultural factors which influence such practices in general. With this background, the second part will offer a general introduction to a selection of shipborne technologies that can be considered significant developments in the history of naval hand-to-hand combat tactics. Rather than being any definite work on naval hand-to-hand combat, this chapter is an attempt at providing a general introduction and bringing attention to the value of this topic, thereby setting the stage for more thorough research projects in the future.
International Ancient Warfare Conference, Aberystwyth University
War at Sea: The Advent of Naval Combat in the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean (International Ancient Warfare Conference, Aberystwyth University, 2013)
2013 •
Jeff Emanuel
The transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age (LH IIIB-C) in the eastern Mediterranean, Aegean, and Near East was marked by the destruction of empires and the migratory movement of populations. This time of upheaval was also marked by a change in the iconography of warriors and warfare, particularly in Egypt and in the Aegean world, including the first representations of true naval combat. Warriors in feathered headdresses, never before seen in Helladic or Egyptian art, are shown on Aegean pottery and in Egyptian relief taking part in battles on both land and sea, and the Helladic oared galley (Wedde’s Type V) makes its first appearance at this time as an instrument of naval warfare. This paper investigates these earliest representations of naval combat, with a special emphasis on the appearance and employment of new maritime technology and its effect on naval warfare. Also considered are what changes in fighting, if any, had to be made in order to adapt to this early form of ship-based combat.
ARHEOLOGIJA I PRIRODNE NAUKE ARCHAEOLOGY AND SCIENCE Published by: Center for New Technology Institute of Archaeology, University of Belgrade, vol 14/2018 pp. 9-17.
Hellenic Marine Forces in Late Bronze Age Greece
2018 •
Christy E. Ioannidou
Bronze Age excavation finds offer a great number of information relating the naval architecture of Greek ships. Unfortunately depictions with war character are quite limited. In addition, the paucity of naval battles on illustrations and texts raise many difficulties to the study of naval warfare. Warriors onboard, who consisted a primitive type of marine corps of Late Bronze Age Greece, offers an obstructive but very exiting area for research.
The Ocean as a Battlefield: a brief Introduction to the History of Naval Warfare
Riccardo Altieri, Philipp Amendt
NAM, Anno 5 - n. 18
Carli A., 2024 How to challenge the master of the sea. Reviewing naval warfare in the Classical period from a non-Athenian perspective
2024 •
Alessandro Carli
Taking distance from previous studies where naval warfare in Classical period is considered as an Athenian uniqueness concerning her military results, this paper aims to review the battles which took place during the Peloponnesian War from a different perspective. After a brief analysis of the Athenian military tactics, understood as their specificity difficult to implement unconditionally, we try to shed light on the Others opted for their ways to conduct naval warfare.
Ancient Warfare: Introducing Current Research, vol. 1 (eds. G. Lee, H. Whittaker, and G. Wrightson)
The Late Bronze-Early Iron Age Transition: Changes in Warriors and Warfare and the Earliest Recorded Naval Battles (pp. 191-209 in Ancient Warfare: Introducing Current Research, vol. 1), 2015
2015 •
Jeff Emanuel
The tumultuous transition from the Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age in the Eastern Mediterranean was marked by a change in the iconography of warriors and warfare, particularly in Egypt and in the Aegean world. It is also at this time that the Helladic oared galley makes its first appearance, where it is used as an instrument of naval warfare in the first true sea battles in recorded history. This paper investigates these earliest representations of naval combat, with a special emphasis on the appearance and employment of new maritime technology and its effect on maritime operations and naval warfare. Also considered are what modes of fighting were utilized in, and what changes had to be made to adapt to, this earliest form of ship-based combat.
Historika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana
The Spartans “at Sea”
2016 •
Ellen Millender
Sparta has long enjoyed the reputation of a polis that was hostile toward and incompetent in τὰ ναυτικά. Impediments, including its location and agrarian economic base, made it difficult for Sparta to challenge Athenian sea power before the last decade of the fifth century. Herodotus and Thucydides, moreover, repeatedly offer support for the Athenian-based stereotype of the Lacedaemonian “landlubber”. Both authors, however, provide accounts of Spartan naval activity that question the assumption that the Spartans were “at sea” when it came to naval matters.
WARSHIPS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
COLIN Christophe
Evolution of Naval Warfare- 28 Apr 14 corrected
Ziaul hoque
AABS 21st CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Sea-Battles in Malalas and Procopius
2023 •
Michael E Stewart
It is well-known that the East Roman emperors based in the harbour city of Constantinople depended upon their navy to protect them from both internal and external enemies. Surrounded on three sides by water, the original fourth-century city walls, which skirted the older parts of the city, had been bolstered in the intervening centuries by a thick layer of defensive walls, towers, and gates on the city’s rapidly expanding outskirts. The Theodosian walls, completed during the reign of Theodosius II and repaired and upgraded in the intervening centuries, ran for more than 6.5 kilometers from the Sea of Marmara in the south to the Golden Horne, an estuary in the north, providing an intimidating barrier on the city’s landward side. Constructed 2.4 kms from Constantine’s original fortifications, the Theodosian walls functioned as a multi-layered defense system and enclosed the city’s seven hills within 2,600 hectares of living area. Evidence of the key role for the navy in protecting the city is found in our literary sources throughout the long history of Byzantium. Historians interested in the sixth century navy are particularly fortunate, since we have an abundance of literary evidence concerning the role of the navy as both a defensive and offensive weapon. In this paper I look at two of these sources, the so-called Chronicle of John Malalas and the Wars of Procopius, an individual who had accompanied Justinian’s navies in campaigns in North Africa and Italy. I will suggest that these depictions reveal more about the narrative and rhetorical strategies of these two authors, than the type of specifics about the sixth-century East Roman navy that concern modern scholars, and hence must be used with caution by those trying to understand sixth –century naval warfare in the Mediterranean.
