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Explores over 700 years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages. 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. 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, the wars and expansion of the 11th and 12th centuries, the Crusades, and the great Hundred Years War between England and France. The chapters in Part II trace thematically the principal developments in the art of warfare; in fortification and siege crafts; in the role of armoured cavalrymen; in the employment of mercenary forces, the advent of gunpowder artillery; and of new skills in navigation and shipbuilding. In both parts of the book, the overall aim has been to offer the reader an impression, not just of the where and the when of great confrontations, but above all of the social experience of warfare in the middle ages, and of the impact of its demands on human resources.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780192801272
eBay Product ID (ePID)91378485
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Number of Pages340 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMedieval Warfare: a History
Publication Year2001
SubjectArchaeology, Government, History
TypeTextbook
AuthorMaurice Keen
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight610 g
Additional Product Features
EditorMaurice Keen
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom