The Battle of Meloria (August 6, 1284)
I have just uploaded a new article, which is my sixth account of medieval naval battles. You can find it here: https://www.academia.edu/130330389/The_Battle_of_Meloria_August_6_1284_. The article includes five main points: 1. The Dogged Rivals 2. The Escalation of Violence 3. The Final Confrontation 4. The Outcome 5. The Re-imagining This version draws upon Matthew E. Parker's dissertation, "Sinking Pisa: The Decline of a Commercial Empire in the Thirteenth Century" (Saint Louis University, 2019). It also references "The Templar of Tyre," translated by Paul Crawford (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), which is an anonymous fourteenth-century chronicle. You read the sixth article from the cycle devoted to maritime battles in the medieval Mediterranean. The Pisans and Genoese went face-to-face, battling for the hegemony of the key islands, and, by extension, of the entire western basin of the Inland Sea. Only one of them could taste victory, though the geopolitical ...