Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300

Name: Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300
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ISBN: 9780801486074

ISBN-10: 0801486076

ISBN-13: 9780801486074

Edition: 1999

Authors: John France

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This authoritative and concise work surveys the range of warfare in the high Middle Ages while reflecting on the society that produced these military struggles. The book brings together for the first time a wealth of information on such topics as knighthood, military organization, weaponry and fortifications, and warfare in the East. In 1095 with the launching of the First Crusade, Europeans established a great military endeavour to save the Holy Land, an undertaking that remained a central preoccupation until the end of the thirteenth century. While the expeditions that went forth to fight the Muslims involved armies of exceptional size, much of the warfare within western Europe itself was…

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 2/5/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



The means of war


The men of war


Causes, aims and objectives


Battle and war, 1000-1152


War and the state in the 12th century


War, ideology and chivalry in the 11th and 12th centuries


Bouvines and its myth


Battle and warfare in the 13th century


Civilization versus the barbarians


Warfare and change