The Battle of the Formigues Islands" is my seventh story in the cycle, "The Intricacies of Naval Warfare," which explores eight significant maritime conflicts in the medieval Mediterranean. The previous six stories are available on academia.edu:
https://www.academia.edu/122683998/The_Battle_of_Ad_Decimum
https://www.academia.edu/124564608/The_Umayyad_Siege_of_Constantinople_717_718_
https://www.academia.edu/125356518/The_Battle_of_the_Gulf_of_Corinth
https://www.academia.edu/126933976/The_Siege_of_Chandax_The_Byzantine_Recovery_of_Crete_960_961
https://www.academia.edu/127661416/The_Fall_of_New_Rome_Part_1
https://www.academia.edu/128273374/The_Fall_of_New_Rome_Part_2_The_Sack_of_Zara
https://www.academia.edu/129233488/The_Fall_of_New_Rome_Part_3_From_Zero_to_Hero_and_Otherwise
The last three articles comprise a single story.
https://www.academia.edu/130330389/The_Battle_of_Meloria_August_6_1284_
The brief outline of my new account is as follows: 1. Setting the Scene 2. The Standoff at the Pass of Panissars 3. Maritime Developments 4. Roger de Lauria Sends the Crusade to Trash 5. The Crusade Caves in 6. Reassessment For the first time in my writing career, I have utilized non-English sources, primarily Italian, French, and Catalan.
I am currently in the process of writing, piecing together various parts of the narrative. As usual, I will describe this battle within the context of related events: the War of the Sicilian Vespers and the Capetian Crusade against Aragon.
At the same time, I'm researching the development of naval artillery in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Mariano Barbasán Lagueruela (1891)
Peter III of Aragon the Great (1240-1285), at the Pass of Panissars.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pedro_III_el_Grande_en_el_collado_de_las_Panizas.jpg
