Medieval Warfare Bibliography for 2002
Books
Abulafia, David and Berend, Nora (eds.), Medieval
Frontiers: Concepts and Practices
Ashgate, ISBN: 0-7546-0522-1
Fourteen articles in this volume, most of which at least touch upon military events, including: Paul W. Edbury, "Latins and Greeks on Crusader Cyprus"; Rasa Mazeika, "Granting Power to the Enemy Gods in the Chronicles of the Baltic Crusades"; Ronnie Ellenblum, "Were there Borders and Borderlines in the Middle Ages? The Example of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem".
Akkari, Hatem (ed.), La Mediterranee Medievale:
Perceptions et representations
Maisonneuve et Larose, ISBN: 1-7068-1528-0
Articles include: Denis Collomp, "La reconquete de l'espcae mediterraneen dans quelques epopees tardives"; Daniele James-Raoul, "La mer Mediterranee dans les recits de pelerinages et les recits de croisades"; Laura Balletto, "A travers la Mediterranee avec le pirate-corsaire Scarincio"; Alfredo Cocci, "Le projet de blocus naval des cotes egyptiennes dans le Liber secretorum Fidelium Crusis (1321c) de Marino Sanudo il vecchio (1279c - 1343); Anna Unali, "Le detroit de Gibraktar apres la conquete portugaise de Cueta (1415) dans la Cronica de Conde Dom Pedro de Menezes de Gomes Eanes de Zurara".
Alvira Cabrer, Martin,
12 de Septiembre de 1213. El Jueves de Muret
Universitat de Barcelona
Archer, Christian I., et al., World
History of Warfare
University of Nebraska Press, ISBN: 0-8032-4423-1
Includes chapters on Classical, early medieval, later medieval, and Asian warfare.
Arnold Buhler, Herausgegeben von, Der
Kreuzzug Friedrich Barbarossas
Jan Thorbecke, ISBN: 3-7995-0612-8
Examines the role of Frederic Barbarossa is the Third Crusade. Includes German translations of important primary texts, including letters written by the Emperor.
Bachrach, Bernard S., Warfare and Military Organization in
Pre-Crusade Europe
Ashgate, ISBN: 0-86078-870-9
From the Variorum Collected Studies Series, it includes the articles: The practical use of Vegetius' De Re Militari during the early Middle Ages; Caballus et caballarius in medieval warfare; Military technology and garrison organization: some observations on Anglo-Saxon military thinking in light of the Burghal Hidage; Medieval siege warfare: a reconnaissance; Logistics in pre-crusade Europe; Early medieval fortifications in the ‘west’ of France: a revised technical vocabulary; Fortifications and military tactics: Fulk Nerra's strongholds circa 1000; Angevin and Norman Warfare: Angevin campaign forces in the reign of Fulk Nerra, Count of the Angevins (987–1040); The combat sculptures at Fulk Nerra’s ‘Battle Abbey’ (c.1005–12); The milites and the millennium; The Angevin strategy of castle-building in the reign of Fulk Nerra, 987–1040; The cost of castle-building: the case of the tower at Langeais, 992–4; On the origins of William the Conqueror’s horse transports; Some observations on the military administration of the Norman Conquest.
Barber, Malcolm and Bate, Keith, The Templars
Manchester University Press, ISBN 0-7190-5110-X
Bourin, Monique and Sopena, Pascual Martinez, Pour une
anthroplogie du prelevement seigneurial dans les campaignes de l'occident
medieval (XIe - XIVe siecles)
Publications de Sorbonne
Brown, Chris, The Second Scottish Wars of Independence
Tempus, ISBN: 07524 2312 6
Burgess,
Glyn S., The Roman de Rou of Wace
Societe Jersiaise, ISBN: 0 901897 34 5
To read an excerpt, click here.
Campbell, Brian, Warfare and Society n Imperial Rome c.31
- 280 AD
Routledge, ISBN: 0415278821
Caniotis, Angelos, and Ducrey, Pierre, Army and Power in
the Ancient World
Franz Steiner Verlag, ISBN: 3-515-08197-6
Includes the articles: Bruce Campbell, "Power without Limit: 'The Romans always win'"; Hans van Wees, "Turants, Oligarchs and Citizen Militias"; Yann le Bohec, "L'armee roamine et le maintien de l'ordre en Gaule (68-70)"; Angelos Chaniotis, "Foreign Soldiers - Natives Girls? Constructing and Crossing Boundaries in Hellenistic Cities with Foreign Garrisons"; Romila Thapar, "The Role of the Army in the Exercise of Power in Early India".
Charron, Bob, Italian Medieval Swordsmanship: The `Flos
Duellatorum' of Fiore dei Liberi Volume One
Boydell/Chivalry Bookshelf ISBN: 1 89144 806 4
In early 1409, Fiore dei Liberi da Premariacco, master-at-arms to the Marquise de Ferrara, sat down to compose an illustrated treatise summarizing all he had learned of fighting in his forty years of combat on the battlefield and in the lists. The result is one of the earliest and most systematic martial arts treatises ever written. Long-time martial artist and medievalist Bob Charron presents not only translations of the text, but also includes photographic sequences reconstructing each technique, unlocking the secrets of this Italian swordmaster. Fiore's work represents a complete Western martial art, which stands on a par with its Eastern counterparts, and this work is sure to nurture a whole new generation of Western martial artists.
Christiansen, Eric, The Norsemen in the Viking Age
Blackwell: ISBN: 0-631-21677-4
Chapter 7 of this work is entitled 'War'.
Conway, Suzanne F., Kingship and Propaganda: Royal
Eloquence and the Crown of Aragon c.1200 - 1450
Clarendon Press, ISBN: 0-19-925185-1
Chapter 7 is entitled "'The word of the king is full of power': Kingship and Propaganda in Peace and War"
Coppola, Giovanni, Fortezze medievali in Siria e Libano
al tempo delle Crociate
Elio Sellino Editore
For more information, click here.
DeVries, Kelly, Guns and Men in Medieval Europe,
1200-1500: Studies in Military History and Technology
Ashgate: Variorum Collected Studies Series (forthcoming November 2002), ISBN: 0 86078 886 5
Contents: Introduction; Men: God and defeat in medieval warfare: some preliminary thoughts; Medieval declarations of war: an example from 1212; God, leadership, Flemings and archery: contemporary perceptions of victory and defeat at the Battle of Sluys, 1340; Contemporary views of Edward III's failure at the Siege of Tournai, 1340; Hunger, Flemish participation and the flight of Philip VI: contemporary accounts of the Siege of Calais, 1346-47; A woman as leader of men: Joan of Arc's military career; The lack of a Western European military response to the Ottoman invasions of Eastern Europe from Nicopolis (1396) to Mohács (1526); Guns: The forgotten battle of Bevershoutsveld, 3 May, 1382: technological innovation and military significance; The use of gunpowder weaponry by and against Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years War; Gunpowder weaponry at the Siege of Constantinople, 1453; Gunpowder and early gunpowder weapons; The technology of gunpowder weaponry in Western Europe during the Hundred Years War; The impact of gunpowder weaponry on siege warfare in the Hundred Years War; The effectiveness of 15th-century shipboard artillery; A 1445 reference to shipboard artillery; Gunpowder weaponry and the rise of the early modern state; Military surgical practice and the advent of gunpowder weaponry; Methodology: Catapults are not atomic bombs: towards a redefinition of 'effectiveness' in premodern military technology
Drake, Michael S., Problems of military power: government,
discipline and the subject of violence
Frank Cass, ISBN: 0714652024
Duffy, Sean, Robert the Bruce's Irish Wars: The Invasions
of Ireland 1306-1329
Tempus, ISBN: 07524 1974 9
Duffy, Sean (ed.), Medieval Dublin III: Proceedings of the
Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2001
Four Courts Press, ISBN: 1-85182-649-1
Essays include: Georgina Scally, "The earthen banks and walled defences of Dublin's north-east corner"; Alex Woolf, "Amlaib Cuaran and the Gael, 941-81"; James Lydon, "Dublin Castle in the middle ages"; Alan Hayden, "The excavation of pre-Norman defences and house at Werbugh Street, Dublin: a summary".
Fegley, Randall, The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk: How the
Knights of Flanders Fell to the Foot Soldiers of Flanders in 1302
McFarland and Co., ISBN: 0-7864-1310-7
Fraser, James, The Battle of Dunnichen, 685
Tempus, ISBN: 0752423487
The Pictish defeat of the Northumbrians is arguably the most important turning point in Scottish history. The stunning victory allowed the Picts to reverse Northumbrian expansion and led to Pictland becoming the dominant kingdom in North Britain - the foundation for the Scottish nation.
Fudge, Thomas A., The Crusade
against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437: Sources
and documents for the Hussite Crusades
Ashgate, ISBN: 0 7546 0801 8
This selection of over 200 texts, nearly all appearing for the first time in English translation, provides a close-up look at the crusades against the Hussite heretics of 15th-century Bohemia, from the perspective of the official Church - or at their struggles for religious freedom, from the Hussites' own point of view. It also throws light on the meaning of the crusading movement and on the nature of warfare in the late Middle Ages. Contents: Introduction; From the Council of Constance to war; The first crusade: Prague, 1420; The second crusade: éatec, 1421; The third crusade: Kutná Hora to the Sázava, 1421-2; The fourth crusade: Tachov, 1427; The fifth crusade: Domaûlice, 1431; New tactics: Basel to Sión, 1432-7.
Graff, David, Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900
Routledge, ISBN: 0-415-23955-9
Green, David, The Battle of Poitiers: 1356
Tempus, ISBN: 0752425579
David Green has researched the battle and the raids that preceded it exhaustively and details the strategy, tactics, arms and armour used by both sides. He reconstructs the battle using an array of contemporary sources and discusses the protagonists, the siting, course and outcome of the encounter.
Grummitt, David (ed.), The English
Experience in France c.1450-1558: War, diplomacy
and cultural exchange
Ashgate, ISBN: 0 7546 0535 3
The essays in this volume are based on papers first presented to a conference held at the Public Record Office, London, in November 1999, and explore the Anglo-French relationship from a variety of perspectives. Essays include: Introduction: War, diplomacy and cultural exchange, 1450-1558, David Grummitt; England's French Possessions: The loss of Lancastrian Normandy: an administrative nightmare, Anne Curry; 'One of the mooste pryncipall treasours belongyng to his Realme of England': Calais and the Crown, c.1450-1558, David Grummitt; War, Diplomacy and Dynasty: The practice of English diplomacy in France, 1461-1471, Edward Meek; The myth of 1485: did France really put Henry Tudor on the throne?, Michael K. Jones; 'To traffic with war'?: Henry VII and the French campaign of 1492, John M. Currin; Friendship and Cultural Exchange in the Renaissance: 'Une haquenée...pour le porter bientost et plus doucement en enfer ou en paradis': the French and Mary Tudor's marriage to Louis XII in 1514, Charles Giry-Deloison; Sir Nicholas Carew's journey through France in 1529, Robert J. Knecht; Courtesy and conflict: the experience of English diplomatic personnel at the court of Francis I, Luke Macmahon; The private face of Anglo-French relations in the 16th century: the Lisles and their French friends, David Potter.
Haigh, Philip A., From Wakefield
to Towton: The Wars of the Roses
Leo Cooper (Pen and Sword Books), ISBN: 0 85052 825 9
Hamblin, V.L. (ed.), Le mistere du
siege d'Orleans
Librairie Droz SA, ISBN: 2-600-00634-6
Le 8 mai 1429, la victoire sur les troupes anglaises met fin à neuf mois de siège devant Orléans. Les chefs militaires français, les bourgeois et les citoyens de la ville, ainsi que leur héroïne Jeanne la Pucelle, participent le jour même à une procession qui les conduit sur les hauts lieux du siège. Le Mistere du siege d’Orleans est à la fois la représentation théâtrale du siège et celle de la célébration processionnelle de cette victoire décisive. Le fatiste y incite les citoyens à participer aux fêtes commémoratives afin de remercier Dieu et d’exalter leur rôle dans la guerre contre les Anglais. L’édition de Vicki Hamblin, tirée du manuscrit unique du Mistere (Reg. lat. 1022), enquête sur la représentation du mystère dans la ville d’Orléans en appréciant ce spectacle tout local à la lumière des documents municipaux et des sources en prose.
Harris, Jonathan, Byzantium and the Crusades
Hambledon, ISBN: 1 85285 298 4
Hicks, Michael, English Political
Culture in the Fifteenth Century
Routledge, ISBN: 0-415-21764-4
Chapter 11: Civil War: categories and causes
Housley, Norman, The Crusades
Tempus, ISBN: 0752425544
Examines four texts written by and about Crusaders, namely the Gesta Francorum, La Conquete de Constantinople by Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Vie de Saint Louis by Jean de Joinville, and Livre de Fais of Marshal Boucicaut.
Housley, Norman, Religious Warfare
in Europe 1400-1536
Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0-19-820811-1
This study examines the spectrum of conflicts waged in God's name in the period from the Later Crusades to the early Reformation, making an important contribution to both areas of research. Professor Housley explores the interaction between Crusade and religious war in the broader sense, and argues that the religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries sprang from deeply rooted proclivities within European society.
Click here to read the first chapter.
Johnson, Matthew, Behind the Castle Gate: From Medieval to
the Renaissance
Routledge, ISBN: 0415261007
Jones, Michael K., Bosworth 1485 -
Psychology of a Battle
Tempus, ISBN: 0 7524 2334 7
Jones uses an exciting new eye-witness account to create an entirely different version of this famous battle, that for the first time gives Richard III a proactive role in shaping the engagement. New evidence is provided to relocate the battle site eight miles west of its traditional focal point of Ambion Hill. The author argue that Richard had a plan to win this clash of arms with his Tudor challenger in the most decisive manner possible, and was only thwarted by extraordinary chance. Broader themes are also addressed, with particular emphasis on the ritual preparation of a medieval army and what inspired men to fight.
Lawson, K.S., The Battle of Hastings: 1066
Tempus, ISBN: 0752426893
1066 remains the most evocative date in English history, when Harold was defeated by William the Conqueror and England changed overnight from Saxon to Norman rule. It has long been believed that, according to the Bayeux Tapestry, Harold was shot in the eye by an arrow. M K Lawson argues that the tapestry was badly restored in the nineteenth century and that we should not necessarily believe what we see there. He goes to sources that depict the tapestry before that restoration and reveals some breathtaking insights which will revolutionize the way we view both the battle and the death of England’s last Saxon king.
Leng, Reiner, Ars Belli: Deutsche taktische und
Kriegstenchnische Bilderhandscriften und Traktate im 15. und 16. und Jahrhundert
Ludwig Reichert Verlag, ISBN 3-89500-261-5
Leoni, Alberto, La
croce e la mezzaluna: la guerra tra le nazioni cristiane e l'Islam, una storia
militare dalle conquiste arabe del VII secolo ai giorni nostri
Ares, ISBN: 8881552515
Lepage, Jean-Denis G.G., Castles and Fortified Cities of
Medieval Europe: An Illustrated History
McFarland and Co., ISBN: 0-7864-1092-2
Liddiard, Robert (ed.), Anglo-Norman Castles
Boydell, ISBN: 0 85115 904 4
This collection brings together for the first time some of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from experts in history, archaeology and historic buildings including: Richard Eales, "Royal Power and Castles in Norman England"; Derek Renn, "Burhgeat and Gonfanon: Two Sidelights from the Bayeux Tapestry"; Marjorie Chibnall, "Orderic Vitalis on Castles"; R. Allen Brown, "Royal Castle Building in England 1154-1216"; Sidney Painter, "Castle-Guard"; Frederick Suppe, "Castle Guard and the Castlery of Clun"; J.R. Kenyon, "Fluctuating Frontiers: Normanno-Welsh Castle Warfare c.1075 to 1240"; and three articles by Charles Coulson, "Fortress Policy in Capetian Tradition and Angevin Practice: Aspects of the Conquest of Normandy by Philip II", "The Impact of Bouvines upon the Fortress of Philip Augustus" and "The Castles of the Anarchy".
Lull, Ramon and Price, Brian, The Book of Knighthood and
Chivalry
Boydell, ISBN: 1 89144 803 X
Undoubtedly the most influential chivalric handbook of the middle ages, this work articulates the ideals expressed both in medieval romance and in the crucible of the medieval battlefield - this is a work written by an accomplished knight for a knightly audience. Rendered from the Caxton 1484 translation into modern English, it is accompanied by the anonymous Ordene de Chevalerie, another important and lively medieval account of the knighting ceremony.
Luttrell, Antony, and Pressouyre, Leon (eds.), La
Commanderie: Institution des ordres militaires dans l'Occident medieval
Comite des travaux historiques et scientifiques, ISBN: 2-7355-0485-9
Matthew, Donald, King Stephen
Hambledon and London, ISBN: 1 85285 272 0
Mele, Gregory, Kunst des Fechtens: The
German School of Swordplay: A Practical Guide
Boydell, ISBN: 1 89144 820 X
The rich corpus of medieval German fighting manuals has been used by Western
martial artists as a basis for the reconstruction of a European martial art that
persisted for nearly three centuries. Building upon the German 'fechtbucher'
(fighting manuals) with modern training methodology, Gregory Mele and the
Chicago Swordplay Guild present, for the first time, a systematic approach to
the study of this powerful fighting tradition. Mele, the founder of the Guild
and the Swordplay Symposium International (SSI), provides a clear presentation
equally valuable for practitioners of both Eastern and Western martial arts in
all their forms, students of medieval history, and arms and armour enthusiasts.
Meville-Jones, John R., Venice and
Thessalonica 1423-1430: The Venetian Documents
Unipress Padova, ISBN: 88-8098-176-5
Archivio del Litorale Adriatico VII. Discusses the Venetian siege of Thessalonica.
Michel, Francisque and Price, Brian R. (trans.), Chivalrous
Conqueror: Chandos Herald's Biography of the Black Prince
Boydell, ISBN: 1 89144 804 8
Nicolle, David (ed.), Companion to Medieval Arms and
Armour
Boydell, ISBN: 0 85115 872 2
Arms and armour in Europe developed dramatically during the thousand years from the fifth to the fifteenth century. During this broad sweep of time civilisations rose and fell and population movements swept from east to west, bringing in their wake advances and modifications absorbed and expanded by indigenous populations. So although the primary focus of this book is on the arms and armour of Europe, it also includes neighbouring cultures where these had a direct influence on developments and changes within Europe, from late Roman cavalry armour, Byzantium and the East to the influence of the Golden Horde. The articles in this work include: Jon Coulston, "Arms and Armour of the Late Roman Army"; Anne Pederson, "Scandinavian Weaponry in the Tenth Century: The Example of Denmark"; Ewart Oakshott, "The Sword of the Comte de Dreux: Non-Christian Symbolism and the Medieval European Sword"; Alan Williams, "The Metallurgy of Medieval Arms and Armour"; Marco Mroin, "The Earliest European Firearms"; John Haldon, "Some Aspects of Early Byzantine Arms and Armour"; Tim Dawson, "Suntagma Hoplon: The Equipment of Regular Byzantine Troops, c.950 to c.1204"; Claude Gaier, "The Lost Shield of Baldwin of Flanders and Hainault, First Latin Emperor of Constantinople"; Andrea Babuin, "Later Byzantine Arms and Armour"; Helmut Nickel, "The Mutual Influence of Europe and Asia in the Field of Arms and Armour"; Michael Gorelik, "Arms and Armour in South-Eastern Europe in the Second Half of the First Millennium AD"; Shihab al-Sarraf, "Close Combat Weapons in the Early Abbasid Period: Maces, Axes and Swords"; David Nicolle, "Jawshan, Cuirie and Coats-of-Plates: An Alternative Line of Development for Hardened Leather Armour".
Noel, William, and Weiss, Daniel (eds.), The Book of Kings: Art, War,
and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible
Third Millennium Publishing, ISBN: 0911886540
Includes the articles: Jonathan Riley-Smith, "Louis IX, the Picture Bible, and culture of crusading. The politics of war: France and the Holy Land"; Stephen N. Fliegel, "The Art of War: Thirteenth-century arms and armor"; William Chester Jordan, "The rituals of war: departure for crusade in Thirteenth-century France".
O'Callaghan, Joseph F., Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain
University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN: 0812236963
O'Callaghan, Joseph F. (ed.), The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of
Castile
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, ISBN: 0-86698-278-7
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, volume 236. Translation of a chronicle written in the mid-thirteenth century. Bulk of the text describes the reigns of the Castillian kings, Alfonso VIII (1158-1214) and Fernando III (1217-1252). Contains descriptions of several battles and campaigns, including Alarcos (1195), Las Navas de Tolosa (1212), and the siege of Cordoba (1326).
Peirce, Ian, and Oakeshott, Ewart, Swords of the Viking Age
Boydell, ISBN: 0 85115 914 1
Penman, Michael, The Scottish
Civil War: The Bruces and the Balliols and the War for Control of Scotland,
1286-1356
Tempus, ISBN: 0752423193
A controversial re-evaluation of the Scottish Wars of Independence which argues that the sixty years of civil war between two generations of rival claimants for the Scottish throne - each with their armed camps of ambitious nobles - had a far more devestating and revolutionary impact upon the kingdom of Scotland than the scrappy wars against England’s Edwards I, II and III.
Philips, Jonathan, The Crusades 1095-1197
Longman, ISBN: 0582328225
Price, Neil, The Viking Way: Religion and War in Late Iron Age
Scandinavia
Uppsala University Press, ISBN: 91-505-1626-9
This PhD thesis addresses these issues by exploring the relationship between two aspects of life in the Viking Age, namely religion and war. For early medieval Scandinavia, neither of these concepts can be exactly equated with their modern, Western equivalents. The text examines a wide range of topics relating to the above themes, including surveys of current thinking on Viking religion and the frameworks proposed for the study of shamanism; claims for pre-Viking shamanism in Scandinavia and Europe, especially recent work on the Migration period; the cult of Óðinn and its rituals; gender boundaries and sexual concepts in Old Norse society, focusing on magic and studies of female ritual specialists; the concept of the soul; spirits and other supernatural beings; the material culture of seiðr and related practices; battle magic and the ritualisation of aggression; Viking Age cultural attitudes to animals; and lycanthropic, ‘totemistic’ beliefs relating to warriors. The concluding section examines the overall concept of ritualised violence, as articulated by a gender-bounded caste of specialists corresponding to what might elsewhere be termed shamans, in the context of the socio-political changes taking place during the Viking period in Scandinavia.
Richards, D.S. (ed.), The Annals of the Saljuq
Turks: Selections from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh of 'Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir
RoutledgeCuzon, ISBN: 0-7007-1576-2
Ibn al-Athir, who died in 1233, is one of the most important historians of Islam. His major chronicle, the Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, is a narrative of Islamic history up to his own lifetime. The annals translated in this volume include the years 1029, and then go from 1037 to 1097. Descriptions of the battle of Mazikert and the beginnings of the First Crusade can be found here.
Richardson, Geoffrey, A Pride of Bastards: A History of the Beaufort
family, their origins, and their part in the Agincourt War and the Wars of the
Roses
Baildon Books, 09527621 4 5
Rose, Susan, Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500
Routledge, ISBN: 0-415-23977-X
The chapters in this book are: "Dockyards and administration: the logistics of medieval fleets"; "Invaders and settlers: operations in the Channel and North Sea c.1000-c.1250"; "Christians, Muslims and Crusaders: naval warfare in the Mediterranean at the time of the Crusaders"; "The Channel powers in the fourteenth century: the use of seapower by England, France and their allies, c.1277-c.1390"; "The fifteenth century in northern waters: conflict and commerce raiding on a wider scale"; "Venetians, Genoese and Turks: the Mediterranean 1300-1500"; "Theory and practice: writings on naval warfare and the conduct of fleets". See this review of the book.
Settia, Aldo A., Uomini contro: La guerra nel Medioevo
Editori Laterza
For more information and to read chapter II, please click here.
Sodini, Carla, De Re Militari: War and Military Culture in
the Early Modern Era
Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, ISBN: 88-7246-518-4
An exhibit and catalogue by the Historical Office of the Italian Army and the University of Florence, which shows printed and written material from the late 15th - to 17th centuries that deal with warfare and the evolution of military science during this period.
Stephenson, I.P., The Anglo-Saxon Shield
Tempus, ISBN: 0752425293
For the Anglo-Saxons the shield, more than any other piece of armour or weaponry, epitomised the warrior. Using the full range of archaeological, representational, literary and comparative sources, Ian Stephenson describes both the construction, decoration and use of their shields and is then able to throw considerable new light on the art of war in the Anglo-Saxon period. The book also contains a complete list of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries.
Thacker, Shelby, and Escobar, Jose (trans.), Chronicle of
Alfonso X
University of Kentucky Press, ISBN: 0-8131-2218-X
A fourteenth-century biography of the Castillian king Alfonso X (1221-1284), commissioned by his grandson Alfonso XI. The first English translation of this chronicle.
Thordeman, Bengt, Armour from the Battle of Wisby
Chivalry Bookshelf, 1-891448-05-6
Tobler, Christian Henry (ed.), Secrets of German Medieval
Swordsmanship
Boydell/Chivalry Bookshelf, ISBN: 1 89144 807 2
In the late 14th century, Master Johannes Liechtenauer developed a deadly form of martial art that fully integrated sword, spear, dagger and grappling, in and out of armour, on foot and on horseback. Founding a school of swordsmanship that would dominate Germany for centuries, he recorded his teachings into cryptic mnemonic verses and swore his students to secrecy. In the 15th century, Sigmund Ringeck, a master of the 'Liechtenauer school,' broke the secrecy and explained the verses in detailed instructions. Christian Henry Tobler has rendered this key text into English for the first time, and provides photographic interpretations of each technique of this 'secret' martial art.
Tracy, James D., Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War:
Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics
Cambridge University Press: ISBN: 0521814316
Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) asserted his princely authority by deciding at times to lead his own armies to war, despite the misgivings of advisers. But since Europe’s wars were fought with money borrowed against future revenues, even an emperor had to share power with his bankers, and his parliaments. This book examines all three dimensions of European warfare. Charles’s role as commander-in-chief is evaluated by measuring the strategic aims of his personal campaigns. The process by which bankers took control of the finances of the Habsburg lands becomes clear from an examination of where the money came from to pay for Charles’s campaigns. Finally, a comparison of the realms that provided most of Charles’s revenues - Castile, Naples, and three Low Countries provinces - shows how some parliamentary bodies, if not all, successfully pursued long-term local interests by exploiting the dynasty’s need for money.
Verbruggen, J.F. (trans. by David Richard Ferguson, ed. Kelly
DeVries), The
Battle of the Golden Spurs: Courtrai, 11 July 1302: A Contribution to the
History of Flanders' War of Liberation,1297-1302
Boydell (forthcoming for August 15, 2002) ISBN: 0 85115 888 9
On 11 July 1302, below the town walls of Courtrai, the most splendid army of knights in Christendom, the flower of the French nobility, was utterly defeated by Flemish rebels, common workers and peasants. The French knights, products of a lifetime's training, were ably led; but so too were the Courtrai townspeople, in addition to being well-armed, and their victory, despite their lack of military skills (and golden spurs), put an end to the enduring myth of the invincibility of the knight. A French explanation of the terrible defeat was immediately given, intended to save the honour and pride of the French nobility; in Flanders the victory was glorified as a just reward for the bravery of the townsmen and the competence of their commanders. Unfortunately there were no impartial witnesses. Any account of the battle must therefore pay careful attention to the personality of the chroniclers, their nationality, and their political and social leanings, as well as their personal sympathies. Verbruggen's study is prefaced by discussion of the problems of reconstruction and extensive consideration of the sources, showing the difficulties faced by medieval military historians in attempts to interpret them. He then offers his own account of the events of that dramatic day, a case study in the reconstruction of events in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages. Originally published in Dutch in 1954, translated and updated. See this review of the book.
Weiler, Björn K.U. and Rowlands, Ifor W., England
and Europe in the Reign of Henry III (1216-1272)
Ashgate, ISBN: 0 7546 0467 5
Includes the essays: "Negotiating
Anglo-Welsh relations: Llywelyn the Great and Henry III", Huw Pryce;
"Reconfiguring the Angevin Empire, 1224-1259", Robin Studd;
"England and the Albigensian Crusade", Nicholas Vincent; "Henry
III (1216-1272), Alfonso X of Castile (1252-1284) and the crusading plans of the
13th century (1245-1272)", José Manuel Rodríguez García; "Roger of
Wendover and the Wars of Henry III, 1216-1234", Sean McGlynn.
Articles
Alexander, Derek, Neighbour, Tim, and Olam, Richard, "Glorious Victory? The Battle of Largs, 2 October 1263", History Scotland v.2 n.2 (2002).
Amt, Emilie, "Besieging Bedford: Military Logistics in 1224", The Journal of Medieval Military History v.1 (2002) p.101-124.
Aufsätze: P. Wynn, "Wars and Warriors in Gregory of Tours' Histories I-IV", Francia v.28 n.1 (2002), p. 1-35.
Bachrach, Bernard S., "Some Observations on the Role of the Byzantine Navy in the Success of the First Crusade", The Journal of Medieval Military History v.1 (2002) p.83-100.
Bachrach, Bernard S., "Gregory of Tours as a Military Historian", The World of Gregory of Tours, ed. Kathleen Mitchell and Ian Wood (London: Brill, 2002)
Barton, Simon, "Traitors to the Faith? Christian Mercenaries in al-Andalus and the Maghreb, c.1100-1300", Medieval Spain: Culture, Conflict and Coexistence, eds. Roger Collins and Anthony Goodman (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002), p. 23-45
Bates, Donald, "The Conqueror's Adolescence", Anglo-Norman Studies v.25 (2002) p. 1-18. - examines William the Conqueror's early career.
Baudry, Marie-Pierre, "La politique de fortification des Plantagenêts en Poitou, 1154-1224", Anglo-Norman Studies v.24 (2002).
Bennett, Matthew, "'Markings on the Land' and Early Medieval Warfare in the British Isles", Fields of Battle: Terrain in Military History, eds. Peter Doyle and Matthew Bennett (Kluwer Academe, 2002).
Biggs, Douglas, ""To aid the Custodian and Council": Edmund of Langley and the Defense of the Realm, June - July 1399", The Journal of Medieval Military History v.1 (2002) p.125-144.
Boone, Marc, "Urban Space and Political Conflict in Late Medieval Flanders", The Journal of Interdisciplinary History v.32 n.4 (2002), p. 621-640.
Bowlus, Charles R., "Italia – Bavaria – Avaria : The Grand Strategy behind Charlemagne’s Renovatio Imperii in the West", The Journal of Medieval Military History v.1 (2002) p.43-60.
Breeze, Andrew, "The Battle of Alutthelia in 844 and Bishop Auckland", Northern History v. 39 n.1 (2002), p.124-125.
Cathers, K., "Geology and Warfare in England and Wales 1450-1680", Fields of Battle: Terrain in Military History, eds. Peter Doyle and Matthew Bennett (Kluwer Academe, 2002).
Chandler, Cullen J., "Heresy and Empire: The Role of the Adoptionist Controversy in Charlemagne's Conquest of the Spanish March", The International History Review v.24 n.3 (2002), p. 505-527.
Constable, Giles, "The Three Lives of Odo Arpinus: Viscount of Bourges, Crusader, Monk of Cluny", Religion, Text, and Society in Medieval Spain and Northern Europe: Essays in honor of J.N. Hillgarth, eds. Thomas E. Burman et al. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieaval Studies, 2002), p.183-199.
Davies, Mike, "Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, King of Wales", The Welsh History Review v.21 n.2 (2002), p. 207-248.
DeVries, Kelly, "Teenagers at War During the Middle Ages", The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society 1150-1650, ed. Konrad Eisenbichler (Toronto: CRRS, 2002), p. 207-223.
DeVries, Kelly, "The Use of Gunpowder in the Wars of the Roses", Traditions and Transformations in Late Medieval England, eds. Douglas Biggs et al., (Leiden: Brill, 2002) p.21-38.
Fisher, Andrew, "The Breaking of the real Braveheart", BBC History Magazine (August 2002).
Forey, Alan, "The military orders and the conversion of Muslims in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries", Journal of Medieval History v. 28:1 (March 2002), p. 1-22.
France, John, "The Composition and Raising of the Armies of Charlemagne", The Journal of Medieval Military History v.1 (2002) p.61-82
Fraser, James E., "'A Swan from a Raven': William Wallace, Brucean Propaganda and Gesta Annalia II", The Scottish Historical Review v.81 n.1 (2002), p. 1-22.
Godden, M.R., "The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome", Anglo-Saxon England v.31 (2002), p.47-68
Gower, Graham, "A suggested Anglo-Saxon signalling system between Chichester and London", London Archaeologist v.10:3 (2002) p.59-63.
Greatrex, Geoffrey, "Recent work on Procopius and the composition of was VII", Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies v.26 (2002)
Grishin, Alexander, "Acik Saray and Medieval Military Campaigns", Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in honour of John Tillotson for his 60th birthday, eds. Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear, and Dianne Tillotson (Merton Priory Press, 2002) p.167-171.
Halsey, Catherine, Reforming England's 'Harde Covetouse Hert': William Worcester and the Diagnosis of Defeat, York Medieval Yearbook v.1 (2002) (PDF file) p. 1-18.
Isla, Amancio, "Warfare and other plagues in the Iberian Peninsula around the year 1000", Europe around the Year 1000, ed. Przemyslaw Urbanczyk (Warsaw: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2002), p. 233-246.
Jimenez, Manuel Gonzalez, "Peace and War on the Frontier of Granada: Jaen and the Truce of 1476", Medieval Spain: Culture, Conflict and Coexistence, eds. Roger Collins and Anthony Goodman (Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002), p. 160-175.
Jones, Lynn, and Maguire, Henry, "A description of the jousts of Manuel I Komnenos", Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies v.26 (2002)
Jones, Michael K., "The Battle of Verneuil (17 August 1424): Towards a History of Courage", War in History v.9 n.4 (2002), p. 375-411.
Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Young Knights Under the Feminine Gaze", The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society 1150-1650, ed. Konrad Eisenbichler (Toronto: CRRS, 2002), p. 189-205.
Kennedy, Hugh, "Military pay and the economy of the early Islamic State", Historical Research v.75 n.188 (2002), p.155-169.
King, Andy, "'According to the Custom Used in French and Scottish Wars': Prisoners and Casualties on the Scottish Marches in the Fourteenth Century", Journal of Medieval History v. 28 (2002), p. 263-90.
King, Andy, "'Pur Salvation du Roiaume': Military Service and Obligation in Fourteenth-Century Northumberland", Fourteenth-Century England II, ed. Chris Given-Wilson (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2002), pp. 13-31.
Kulikowski, M., "Marcellinus 'of Dalmatia' and the Dissolution of the Fifth-Century Empire", Byzantion: Revue Internationale des Etudes Byzantines v.72 (2002), p. 177-191.
Lay, Stephen, "The Reconquest as Crusade in the Anonymous De expugnatione Lyxbonensi", Al Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean v.14 n.2 (2002) p.123-130.
Loutchitskaya, Svetlana, "L'idee de conversion dans les chroniques de la premiere croisade", Cahiers de civilisation medievale v.45 (2002), p. 39-53.
Malkiel, D., "The underclass in the first crusade: a historiographical trend", Journal of Medieval History v.28 (2002), p. 169-197.
Marvin, Lawrence W., "Thirty-Nine Days and a Wake-up: The Impact of Indulgence and Forty Days Service on the Albigensian Crusades, 1209-1218", The Historian v.65 n.1 (Fall 2002), p.75-94.
Matto, Michael, "A War of Containment: The Heroic Image in the Battle of Maldon", Studia Neophilologica v.74 n.1 (2002), p. 60-75.
Mol, Johannes A., "Frisian fighters and the Crusade", Crusades: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, v.1 (2002) p.89-110.
Morillo, Stephen, "Battle Seeking: The Contexts and Limits of Vegetian Strategy", The Journal of Medieval Military History v.1 (2002) p.21-41
Moss, Vincent, "The Defence of Normandy 1193-8", Anglo-Norman Studies v.24 (2002).
Neville, Cynthia, "Scottish Influences on the Medieval Laws of the Anglo-Scottish Marches", Scottish Historical Review v.81 n.2 (2002), p. 161-185.
Nicholson, Helen, "The Hospitallers in England, the Kings of England, and relations with Rhodes in the Fourteenth Century", Sacra Militia: Rivista di Storia Degli Ordini Militari v.2 (2002), p.25-48.
Outram, Quentin, "The Demographic Impact of Early Modern Warfare", Social Science History v.26 n.2 (2002), p. 245-272.
Owen-Crockler, Gale R., "The Bayeux 'Tapestry': invisible seams and visible boundaries", Anglo-Saxon England v.31 (2002), p. 257-277.
Phillips, Gervaise, "'Of Nimble Service': Technology, Equestrianism and the Cavalry Arm of Early Modern Western European Armies", War and Society v.20 n.2 (October 2002), p. 1-21.
Pitte, Dominique, "Château-Gaillard, dans la défense de la Normandie orientale (1196-1204)", Anglo-Norman Studies v.24 (2002).
Potter, David, "Sir John Gage, Tudor Courtier and Soldier (1479-1556)", English Historical Review v.117 n.474 (2002), p. 1109-1146.
Power, Daniel, "The French Interests of the Marshal Earls of Stirguil and Pembroke, 1189-1234", Anglo-Norman Studies v.24 (2002) p.199-225.
Riley-Smith, Jonathan, "Casualties and the Number of Knights on the First Crusade", Crusades: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, v.1 (2002) p.13-28.
Rogers, Clifford J., "By fire and Sword: Bellum Hostile and 'Civilians' in the Hundred Years War", Civilians in the Path of War, eds. Mark Grimsley and Clifford J. Rogers (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), p.33-78.
Rogers, Clifford J., "The Vegetian "Science of Warfare" in the Middle Ages", The Journal of Medieval Military History v.1 (2002) p.1-19.
Russo, Luigi, "Ricerche sull' 'Historia Iherosolimitano' di Roberto di Reims", Studi Medievali 3rd Series v.43 (2002), p. 651-691.
Speidel, Michael P., "Berserks: A History of Indo-European 'Mad Warriors'", Journal of World History v.13 n.2 (2002), p. 253-290.
Stewart, Angus, "The Logic of Conquest: Tripoli, 1289; Acre, 1291; why not Sis, 1293?", Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean v.14 (2002), p. 7-16.
Suppe, Frederick, "Roger of Powys, Henry II's Anglo-Welsh Middleman, and his Leneage", The Welsh History Review v.21 n.1 (June 2002), p. 1-23.
Talmon-Heller, Daniella, "Muslim Martyrdom and Quest for Martyrdom in the Crusading Period", Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean v.14 (2002), p.131-139.
Tolan, John V., "Using the Middle Ages to Construct Spanish Identity: 19th and 20th-Century Spanish Historiography of Reconquest", Historiographical Approaches to Medieval Colonization of East Central Europe, ed. Jan M. Piskorski (East European Monographs n.611, 2002) p.329-348.
Tyson, Diana B., "The Siege of Caerlaverock: A Re-examination", Nottingham Medieval Studies v.46 (2002) p.45-69.
Tyson, Diana B., "A New Manuscript of the First Calais Rolls of Arms", Notes and Queries v.49 i.4 (December 2002) p.443-444.
Vemming-Hansen, P., "Casting and firing a replica of the Loshult gun", Journal of the Ordnance Society v.14 (2002) p.5-18.
Verbruggen, J.F., translated by Kelly DeVries, "Flemish Urban Militias Against the French Calvary Armies in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries", The Journal of Medieval Military History v.1 (2002) p.145-169.
Wheeler, Everett L., "Christine de Pizan's Livre des fais d'armes et de chevalerie: Gender and the Prefaces", Nottingham Medieval Studies v.46 (2002) p.119-161.
Yucesoy, H., "Between nationalism and social sciences: an examination of modern scholarship on the Abbasid civil war in the reign of al-Ma'mun", Medieval Encounters v.8 n.1 (2002) p.56-78
Zuckerman, Constantine, "Heraclius in 625", Revue des Etudes Byzantines v.60 (2002), p. 189-198.