Medieval Warfare A History

Name: Medieval Warfare A History
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ISBN: 9780198206392

ISBN-10: 0198206399

ISBN-13: 9780198206392

Edition: 1999

Authors: Maurice Keen

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This richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.1500). The period covered has a distinctive character in military history. It was 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, experts in their own fields, have contributed to this finely illustrated book. It 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, on the wars and expansion of…

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List price: $97.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/18/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




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