Medieval Warfare A History

Name: Medieval Warfare A History
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ISBN: 9780192801272

ISBN-10: 0192801279

ISBN-13: 9780192801272

Edition: 2001

Authors: Maurice Keen

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This finely illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne through to the end of the Crusades. The period covered has a distinctive character in military history, being an age when organization for war was integral to social structure, when the secular aristocrat was by necessity also a warrior, and whose culture was profoundly influenced by martial ideas. Twelve scholars, each expert in his own field, have contributed to this survey, which is is divided into two parts. Part I seeks to explore the experience of war viewed chronologically with separate chapters on, for instance, the Viking age, the wars and expansion of the eleventh and…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.10" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.342




Introduction




Phases of Medieval Warfare



Carolingian and Ottonian Warfare




The Vikings




An Age of Expansion ic./i1020-1204




Warfare in the Latin East




European Warfare, ic./i1200-l1320




The Age of the Hundred Years War




The Arts of Warfare



Fortifications and Sieges in Western Europe, 800-1450




Andrew Ayton




Mercenaries




Naval Warfare in the Viking Age, c.1100-1500



War and the Non-Combatant in the Middle Ages




The Changing Scene: Guns, Gunpowder, and Permanent Armies



Further Reading


Chronology


Index