Theotokis Georgios, Yıldız Aysel (eds.). A Military History of the Mediterranean Sea: Aspects of War, Diplomacy and Military Elites

Brill, 2018. — 489 p. — (History of Warfare 118).This is a collection of essays that aims to offer a vertical history of war in the Mediterranean Sea, from the early Middle Ages to early modernity, putting the emphasis on the changing face of several different aspects and contexts of war over time. The Mediterranean has always attracted the imagination of modern historians as the epicentre of great political entities, such as the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Ottomans, Venetians, and Spanish. However, it seems that the sea itself was always on the margins of historical inquiry - at least, until the publication of the famous two-volume work by F. Braudel in 1949.