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Medieval warfare : a history

Author: Maurice Hugh Keen
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Written by 12 scholars, this richly illustrated volume illuminates the medieval period, examining over 700 years of European conflict from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the Middle Ages (1500). 100 illustrations. The medieval period was a singular epoch in military history-an age profoundly influenced by martial ideals, whose very structure of society was organized for war, and whose leaders were by necessity  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Maurice Hugh Keen
ISBN: 0198206399 9780198206392
OCLC Number: 41581804
Notes: "Chronological table of important dates and events": p. [301]-314.
Description: viii, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Carolingian and Ottonian warfare / Timothy Reuter --
Vikings / H.B. Clarke --
Age of expansion, c. 1020-1204 / John Gillingham --
Warfare in the Latin East / Peter Edbury --
European warfare, c. 1200-1320 / Norman Housley --
Age of the Hundred Years War / Clifford J. Rogers --
Fortifications and sieges in Western Europe, c. 800-1450 / Richard L.C. Jones --
Arms, armour, and horses / Andrew Ayton --
Mercenaries / Michael Mallett --
Naval warfare after the Viking Age, c. 1100-1500 / Felipe Fernández-Armesto --
War and the non-combatant in the Middle Ages / Christopher Allmand --
Changing scene : guns, gunpowder, and permanent armies / Maurice Keen.
Responsibility: edited by Maurice Keen.
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Written by 12 scholars, this richly illustrated volume illuminates the medieval period, examining over 700 years of European conflict from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the Middle Ages (1500). 100 illustrations. The medieval period was a singular epoch in military history-an age profoundly influenced by martial ideals, whose very structure of society was organized for war, and whose leaders were by necessity warriors. Now, the richly illustrated Medieval Warfare illuminates this era, examining over seven hundred years of European conflict, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (1500). Twelve scholars examine medieval warfare in two sections. The first section explores the experience of war chronologically, with essays on the Viking age, on the wars and expansion of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, on the Crusades, and on the great Hundred Years War between England and France. The second section traces developments in the art of warfare: fortification and siege craft, the role of armored cavalrymen, the use of mercenary forces, the birth of gunpowder artillery, and the new skills in navigation and shipbuilding.

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