The role and characteristics of armed force at sea in western Europe and the Mediterranean prior to 1650.

John B. Hattendorf, Richard W. Unger

Introduction: Theories of Naval Power - John B. Hattendorf
Naval Force in the Viking Age and High Medieval Denmark - Niels Lund
Scandinavian Warships and Naval Power in the 13th and 14th centuries - Jan Bill
Naval Power and Maritime Technology during the Hundred Years' War - Timothy J Runyan
Oars, Sails and Guns: The English and War at Sea, c.1200-1500 - Ian Friel
Byzantium and the Sea: Byzantine Fleets and the History of The Empire in the Age of the Macedonian Emperors, c.900-1025 - John Pryor
Iberian Naval Power, 1000-1650 - Lawrence V Mott
Venice, Genoa and Control of the Seas in the 13th and 14th Centuries - John Dotson
Genoese Naval Forces in the Mediterranean in the 15th and 16th Centuries - Michel Balard
An Exemplary Maritime Republic: Venice at the End of the Middle Ages - Bernard Doumerc
The Navies of the Medici: The Florentine Navy and the Navy of the Sacred Military Order of Saint Stephen, 1547-1648 - Marco Gemignani
The State of Portuguese Naval Power in the 16th Century - Francisco C Domingues
Naval Power in the Netherlands before the Dutch Revolt - Louis Sicking
Naval Power and Control of the Seas in the Baltic in the 16th Century - Jan Glete
The New Atlantic: Naval Warfare in the 16th Century - N A M Rodger
Conclusion: Toward a History of Medieval Sea Power - Richard W. Unger