The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture From the Classical World to the Middle Ages

About the Author: Michael Eisenberg is a senior researcher and lecturer in the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and Department of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, Israel. He completed his PhD at the University of Haifa in 2009. He is Classical period archaeologist with a rich field experience. He published articles and books focusing on HellenisticUmayyad archaeology and military architecture of the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. He is directing the on-going excavation project of Hippos-Sussita of the Decapolis
About the Author: Rabei Khamisy is a senior researcher in the Zinman Institute of Archaeology and a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Haifa, Israel. He completed his PhD at the University of Haifa in 2012 and Carried out a Post-Doctorate research in Cardiff University (2013-2015). His main research focuses in Crusader archaeology and he is leading the major project of Montfort Castle together with Professor Adrian Boas. Currently he is also excavating in two Frankish villages in western Galilee.
The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection. These scholarships have attracted ancient writers and generals and nowadays historians, archaeologists and researchers poliorcetics. Military historiography and ancient manuals are well familiar from the Classical period throughout the Hellenistic great battlefields until the end of the Middle Ages, the chronological scope of this codex. The current book is the first to encompass this long array of time while trying to enrich the reader with the continuity, development and regression in the different periods and spheres of the ancient poliorcetics and beyond; the papers presented here are focusing on the physical fortifications, besieging and defense techniques, development and efficiency of ancient projectiles and sieging machinery, battlefields and the historiographical evidence. The X papers of the book, are written by some of the best scholars in their field, presenting here for the first time the results of their research, in the west and in the east.