Warfare throughout the Middle Ages

This section covers more general articles and items dealing with medieval warfare

Articles

Ayton, Andrew and Price, J.L., The Military Revolution from a Medieval Perspective - from The Medieval Military Revolution (1998) - added July 7, 2002

Bachrach, Bernard S., Caballus et Caballarius in Medieval Warfare - from The Study of Chivalry: Resources and Approaches (1988) - added February 3, 2002

Bachrach, Bernard S., Medieval Siege Warfare: A Reconnaissance - from The Journal of Military History v.58 n.1 (1994) - added March 28, 2002

Burke, Dillon, Strategy and Tactics in Medieval Warfare - an Overview - (2001) - added December 24, 2002

Chevedden, Paul, The Invention of the Counterweight Trebuchet: A Study in Cultural Diffusion - from Dumbarton Oaks Papers v.54 (2000) - (PDF file) - added January 20, 2002

DeVries, Kelly, Teenagers at War During the Middle Ages - from The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society, 1150-1650 (2002) - added July 24, 2002

Gazzini, Marina, Gli utenti della strada: mercanti, pellegrini, militari - from Reti Medievali v.3 (2002) - added September 27, 2002

McGlynn, Sean, The myths of medieval warfare - from History Today v. 44 n.1 (1994) - added March 28, 2002

Morillo, Stephen, Guns and Government: A Comparative Study of Europe and Japan - from the Journal of World History v.6 n.1 (1995) - added February 26, 2003

Russell, F.H., Love and Hate In Medieval Warfare: The Contribution of Saint Augustine, from Nottingham Medieval Studies v.31 (1987) - coming soon

Showalter, Dennis E., Caste, Skill, and Training: The Evolution of Cohesion in European Armies from the Middle Ages to the Sixteenth Century - from The Journal of Military History v.57 (1993) - added May 12, 2003

Sloan, John, The Stirrup Controversy - added July 24, 2002 

Vemming, Peter, War Engines of the Middle Ages - from the Middelaldercentret website (1998) - added January 13, 2002

Zygluski, Zdzislaw, Knightly Arms - Plebian Arms - from Quaestiones medii aevi novae, v. 4 (1999) - added January 24, 2002

Book Reviews

The Medieval City under Siege, ed. by Ivy A. Corfis and Michael Wolfe - reviewed by Jose Manuel Rodriguez Garcia

Everett U. Crosby. Medieval Warfare. A Bibliographical Guide   -  reviewed by John France

Crusading and Warfare in Medieval and Renaissance Europe by Norman Housley - reviewed by David Hay

Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe, by Bert S. Hall - reviewed by Randall Storey

Warriors and their Weapons around the Time of the Crusades, by David Nicolle - reviewed by Jonathan Harris

The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by Andrew Ayton and J. L. Price - reviewed by Kelly DeVries (The Historian)

Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe, by Bert S. Hall - reviewed by Louis Hass (The Historian)

Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe, by Richard W. Kaeuper - by Sean McGlynn (English Historical Review)

Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe, by Richard W. Kaeuper -reviewed by Thomas F. Madden (The Historian)

The Circle of War in the Middle Ages, edited by Donald J. Kagan and L. J. Andrew Villalon - reviewed by Sean McGlynn (English Historical Review)

War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica, edited by Kurt Raaflaub and Nathan Rosenstein - reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler (The Historian)

The Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages from the Eighth Century to 1340, 2nd Edition, by J. F. Verbruggen, translated by Summer Williard and Mrs. R. W. Southern - reviewed by Bernard Bachrach (The Historian)

Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages 768-1487, by Nicholas Hooper and Matthew Bennett - reviewed by Kelly DeVries

External Web Sites

http://www.chronique.com/ - The Knighthood, Chivalry and Tournaments Resource Library

http://historymedren.about.com/cs/militaryhistory1/ - Medieval Military History, from about.com - maintained by Melissa Snell

http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/~shm/war.html - A Collection of Extracts on Medieval Warfare - examines four different topics, including the Battle of Hastings

http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/oriflam.htm - Société de l'Oriflamme - examines several aspects of medieval warfare 

http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~rkarras/warbib.htm - The Conduct of Warfare in the Middle Ages, 400-1500 - a survey of secondary works in English  by Paul V. Walsh

http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/html/wwp/engl/entr/batt900.html - A List of Historical Battles - from the year 900 onwards

http://www.uwstout.edu/socsci/burkholder3/ - Medieval Warfare in Fact and Film - Pete Burkholder offers this page which looks at the portrayal of medieval warfare in recent films such as Gladiator and Braveheart.  You can also take a look at his History and Film web site.

http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/themes/t_1/ast_1_02.htm - The Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Images of Medieval Warfare - manuscript pictures of battles, sieges and other military actions

http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/med.html - Canadian Forces College - this site offers a variety of links to other pages dealing with medieval military history (some links out of date)

http://www.middelaldercentret.dk/gunpowder2002.pdf - Firing Trials from the Medieval Gunpowder Research Group - from Middelaldercentret.dk

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