Medieval Warfare In Manuscripts

Author : Pamela J. Porter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802084001

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Medieval Warfare in Manuscripts by Pamela J. Porter Pdf

The glamour associated with knights in shining armour, colourful tournaments and heroic deeds appeal strongly to the modern imagination. However, few pieces of military dress and equipment have survived to provide direct insight into the way that war was waged in the Middle Ages. For a comprehensive view of the nature of medieval warfare we rely on written documentation and the information preserved in paintings, sculptures, carvings, and other pictorial sources. The most numerous by far of these are the miniatures and drawings found in manuscript books, partly because books tend to survive better that other artefacts and partly because many individual volumes contain multiple representations. Pamela Porter presents and describes a variety of evocative manuscript illuminations in an effort to reveal them as a source of information about military dress, equipment, and practices.

Author : Pamela Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0712356053

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Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts by Pamela Porter Pdf

"The ways of war in the Middle Ages never cease to fascinate. There is a glamour associated with knights in shining armour, colourful tournaments and heroic deeds which appeals to the modern imagination. Because medieval warfare had its colourful side it is easy to overlook the face that war was a very serious business in an age when brute force was the recognised way of settling a quarrel, and conflict formed a normal way of life at every level of society.0This book illustrates the art of war with dozens of medieval images from books and manuscripts, and reveals a wealth of social and military background on heraldry, armour, knights and chivalry, castles, sieges, and the arrival of gunpowder.0This new edition is completely revised with a selection of new illustrations from the British Library's medieval manuscripts."--Dust jacket.

Author : Maurice Keen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191647383

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Medieval Warfare by Maurice Keen Pdf

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 the eleventh and twelfth centuries, on the Crusades and on 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 craft; 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 general 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 and human endurance.

Author : David Whetham
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047424857

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Just Wars and Moral Victories by David Whetham Pdf

By exploring the moral and legal context of medieval strategic thinking, this work explains how the use of surprise and deception could, in certain circumstances, be reconciled with the practise of chivalric warfare.

Author : Bernard S Bachrach,David Bachrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315512631

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Warfare in Medieval Europe 400-1453 by Bernard S Bachrach,David Bachrach Pdf

Warfare in Medieval Europe c. 400-c.1453 provides a thematic discussion of the nature and conduct of war, including its economic, technological, social, and religious contexts, from the late Roman Empire to the end of the Hundred Years’ War. The geographical scope of this volume encompasses Latin Europe from Iberia to Poland and from Scandinavia and Britain to Sicily and includes the interaction between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, particularly in the context of the crusading movement. Bernard and David Bachrach explore the origins of the institutions, physical infrastructure, and intellectual underpinnings of medieval warfare and trace the ways in which medieval warfare was diffused beyond Europe to the Middle East and beyond. Written in an accessible and engaging way and including chapters on military topography, military technology, logistics, strategy and combat, this is a definitive synthesis on medieval warfare. The book is accompanied by a companion website which includes interactive maps of the chief military campaigns, chapter resources, a glossary of terms and an interactive timeline which provides a chronological backbone for the thematic chapters in the book. Warfare in Medieval Europe is an essential resource for all students of medieval war and warfare.

Author : John France,Kelly DeVries,Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273102

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Journal of Medieval Military History by John France,Kelly DeVries,Clifford J. Rogers Pdf

The Journal of Medieval Military History continues to consolidate its now assured position as the leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval Warfare The articles here offer a wide range of approaches to medieval warfare. They include traditional studies of strategy (on Baybars) and the logistics of Edward II's wars, as well as cultural history (an examination of chivalry in Guy of Warwick) intellectual history (a broad analysis of strategic theory in the Middle Ages), and social history (on knightly training in arms). The Hundred Years War is studied using cutting-edge methodology (data-drivenanalysis of skirmishes) and by tackling relatively new areas of inquiry (environmental history). There is also a close reading of Carolingian documents, which sheds new light on armies and warfare in the time of Charles the Great. Contributors: Ronald W. Braasch III, Pierre Galle, Walter Goffart, Carl I. Hammer, John Hosler, Rabei G. Khamisy, Ilana Krug, Danny Lake-Giguère, Brian Price.

Author : Hannsjoachim Wolfgang Koch
Publisher : Crescent
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000055900058

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Medieval Warfare by Hannsjoachim Wolfgang Koch Pdf

"Medieval Warfare" is a comprehensive illustrated history of the way, why and how war was fought from the fall of the Roman Empire through and including the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation. This the first serious work to analyze medieval warfaresince the publication of Sir Charles Oman's classic study more than forty years ago.

Author : Everett U. Crosby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135576264

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Medieval Warfare by Everett U. Crosby Pdf

Hono sapiens, homo pugnans, and so it has been since the beginning of recorded history. In the Middle Ages, especially, armed conflict and the military life were so much a part of the political and cultural development that a general account of this period is, in large measure, a description of how men went to war.

Author : Nicholas Hooper,Matthew Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521440491

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The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare by Nicholas Hooper,Matthew Bennett Pdf

This book offers a highly readable account of warfare in Europe and the Mediterranean from the Battle of Poitiers to the Wars of the Roses. With an emphasis on superb full-colour cartography and illustration, The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages, 768 1487 focuses on military strategy, debunking some of the prevailing myths of medieval warfare. Often characterized as an era dominated by lone knights and long sieges, the Middle Ages in fact had a military culture as sophisticated and complex as our own, with organized armies and a high degree of tactical intelligence. This complexity is detailed in maps, plans, and an informative text. Development of naval warfare, cavalry, and siege tactics are all covered, as is the nature of contemporary logistics and contemporary understanding of the science of warfare.

Author : Michael Prestwich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300076630

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Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages by Michael Prestwich Pdf

A history of the war experience of 13th and 14th century England. With anecdotes and illustrations, it explores how English medieval armies fought, how men were recruited, how the troops were fed, supplied and deployed, the development of weapons, and the structure of military command.

Author : Joanna Bellis,Laura Slater
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783271559

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Representing War and Violence by Joanna Bellis,Laura Slater Pdf

An examination of written and other responses to conflict in a variety of forms and genres, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century.

Author : J. F. Verbruggen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0851155707

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The Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages by J. F. Verbruggen Pdf

He begins by analysing the sources for our knowledge of the military history of the period, assessing their reliability: some chroniclers exaggerate, others are careful observers or have access to official records. There follows an examination of the constituent parts of the medieval army, knights and footsoldiers, equipment and terms of service, behaviour on the field, and psychology, before the problematic question of medieval tactics is addressed through analysis of accounts of a series of major battles. Strategy is discussed in the context of these battles: whether to seek battle, fight a defensive war, or attempt a war of conquest.

Author : Terence Wise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 0850451698

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Medieval Warfare by Terence Wise Pdf

Author : Kelly DeVries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351918442

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Medieval Warfare 1300–1450 by Kelly DeVries Pdf

War was epidemic in the late Middle Ages. It affected every land and all peoples from Scotland and Scandinavia in the north to the southern Mediterranean Sea coastlines of Morocco, North Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East in the south, from Ireland and Spain in the west to Russia and Turkey in the east. Nowhere was peaceful for any significant amount of time. The period also saw significant changes in military theory and practice which altered the ways in which campaigns were conducted, battles fought, and sieges laid; and changes in the leadership, recruitment, training, supply and financing of armies. There were changes in the relationship between those waging warfare, from generals to irregular troops, and the society in which they lived and for or against which they fought; the frequency of popular rebellions and the participation in them by townspeople and peasants; changes in the desire to undertake Crusades, and changes in technology, including but not limited to gunpowder weapons. This collection gathers together some of the best published work on these topics. The first section of seven papers show that throughout Europe in the later Middle Ages generals led and armies followed what are usually defined as "modern" strategy and tactics, contrary to popular belief. The second part reprints nine works that examine the often neglected aspects of the process of putting and keeping together a late medieval army. In the third section the authors discuss various ways that warfare in the fourteenth and fifteenth century affected the society of that period. The final sections cover popular rebellions and crusading.

Author : Bob Carruthers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781592243

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Medieval Warfare by Bob Carruthers Pdf

James Grant (1822Ð1887) was a Scottish author and was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was a distant relation of Sir Walter?Scott. He was a prolific author, writing some 90 books, including many yellow-backs. Titles included Adventures of an Aide-de-camp, One of 'The Six Hundred', The Scottish Musketeers and The Scottish Cavalier.??Medieval Warfare collects Grant's work on the subject, from the Battle of Hastings in 1066 to the Battle of Barnet in 1471, a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses. The book contains remarkably detailed accounts of many key battles from the period including the Battle of the Standard and Bannockburn to Poitiers and Agincourt from the Hundred Years' War. The historically defining strategies employed during these battles are explored throughout.??Illustrated with vivid portraits of battle and detailed drawings of the tools and weapons of the period, this is the definitive account of a trying and bloody period in history.