浴血马耳他 - 主要参考书目

【简介】公元1565年夏季，穆斯林和基督徒在地中海中部的荒凉小岛马耳他进行了一场旷世大决战。扩张成性的穆斯林奥斯曼帝国根据其征服欧洲和整个世界的战略部署，派遣六万大军和数百艘战舰，围攻地属西班牙哈斯伯格王朝的马耳他岛。这个被军事专家一致认为无法防守的孤岛上有六千守军，包括由狂热的天主教信徒所组成的医护骑士团及其协防的欧洲雇佣军和当地居民。战斗从五月下旬打响，到九月初结束，过程极其惨烈。本文将叙述这一战役的起因、过程和后果。


【主要参考书目】


1565年马耳他战役：

Francisco Balbi di Correggio (Transl. Ernle Bradford), The Siege of Malta 1565. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK, 2005.

Roger Crowley, Empires of the Sea. Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, 2009.

Ernle Bradford, The Great Siege: Malta 1565. e-readers.com, New York, 2010.

Stephen O’shea, Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2006.


奥斯曼帝国：

Lord Kinross, The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire. Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York 1977.

Giancarlo Casale, The Ottoman Age of exploration. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010.

Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Basic Books, New York, 2005.

Godfrey Goodwin, The Janissaries. Saqi Books, London, 1997.



西班牙哈斯伯格王朝：

Robert A, Kann, A History of the Habsburg Empire 1526-1918. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974.

Andrew Wheatcroft, The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire. Penguin Books, London, 1996.

J. H. Elliott, Imperial Spain 1469-1761. Penguin Books, London, 1990.

Henry Kaman, Philip of Spain. Yale University Press, New haven, 1999.


医护骑士团：

H. J. A. Sire, The Knights of Malta. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1994.

Ernle Bradford, The Shield and the Sword: The Knights of St. John, Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta. e-readers.com, New York, 2012.

Desmond Seward, The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders. Penguin Books, London, 1996.

F. C. Woodhouse, The Military Religious Orders of the Middle Ages. Leonaur Publishing, UK, 2010.