Medieval Warfare Bibliography for 2005

Ayton, Andrew and Preston, Philip (eds.), The Battle of Crécy, 1346
Boydell & Brewer, ISBN: 1-84383-115-5

Includes the articles: "The Battle of Crécy: Context and Significance," by Andrew Ayton; "The Crécy Campaign," by Andrew Ayton; "The Traditional Battlefield of Crécy,", by Philip Preston; "The Battle of Crécy," by Michael C Prestwich; "The English Army at Crécy," by Andrew Ayton; "The Nobility of Normandy and the English Campaign of 1346," by Christophe Piel; "Vassals, Allies and Mercenaries: the French Army before and after 1346," by Bertrand Schnerb; "The Battle of Crécy: A Hard Blow for the Monarchy of France," by Francoise Autrand; "Crécy and the Chroniclers," by Andrew Ayton; "Topography and Archery: Further Reflections on the Battle of Crécy," by Andrew Ayton and Philip Preston.

Bachrach, Bernard S., and Bachrach, David S. (eds.), The Gesta Tancredi of Ralph of Caen: A History of the Normans on the First Crusade
Ashgate, ISBN: 0 7546 3710 7

Crusade Texts in Translation v.12: This is the first translation into English of Ralph of Caen's Gesta Tancredi. The text provides an important narrative of the First Crusade and its immediate aftermath, covering the period 1096-1105. The work as a whole has a striking Norman point of view and contains details found in no other source, providing a corrective to the strong northern focus of most of the other narrative sources for the First Crusade.

Bennett, Michael, Bradbury, Jim, and DeVries, Kelly, Fighting techniques of the medieval world AD 500 to AD 1500
Spellmount/Tempus, ISBN: 1862272999

Bonner, Michael (ed.), Arab-Byzantine Relations in Early Islamic Times
Ashgate, ISBN: 0 86078 716 8

Includes articles "Arab wars with the Byzantines in the Umayyad period," Julius Wellhausen; "Arab-Byzantine relations under the Umayyad Caliphate," H.A.R.Gibb; "Frontiers and Military Organization: 7th-century continuities: the Ajnâd and the 'Thematic Myth'," John Haldon; "The Arab-Byzantine frontier in the 8th and 9th centuries: military organisation and society in the borderlands," J.F. Haldon and H. Kennedy; "Polemics and Images of the 'Other': Apocalyptic and other materials on Early Muslim-Byzantine wars: a review of Arabic sources," Suliman Bashear; "Martyrdom, Jihad, Holy War: Some observations concerning the early development of Jihad on the Arab-Byzantine frontier, Michael Bonner

Hecker, Hans (ed.), Krieg in Mittelalter und Renaissance
Otto Harrassowitz, ISBN: 3770008499

Raymund Kottje, "Tötung im Krieg als rechtliches und moralisches. Problem im früheren und hohen Mittelalter (7.-12. Jh.)"; Josef Semmler, "Bellum Iustum"; Hans Hecker, "Die Kriege der Kiever und der Moskauer Rus'. Skizzen zu einer Typologie"; Albrecht Noth, "Der "Kampf des Muslim für seine Religion" (Cihäd): Seine Grundlegung und seine Ausformungen in der Geschichte (bis ca. 1300)"; Bernhard Zimmermann, "Zur Pathologie des Krieges in der griechischen Literatur des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr"; Helmut Brall, "Sit Abel starp durh bruoders nit (Wh. 51,30) Bewertungen des Krieges in volkssprachlichen Dichtungen des Mittelalters"; Peter Wunderli, "Guillaume d'Orange, der Krieg und der Frieden"; Philippe Contamine, "Une experience romancee et personnelle de la guerre au XVe sicle: leJouvencel de Jean de Bueil"; Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen, "Krieg im Nirgendwo: Bild und Funktion des Kriegs in Thomas Mores Utopia"; Lutz Geldsetzer, "Bellum omnium contra omnes"

Hewitt, H.J., The Organization of War Under Edward III
Pen and Sword Books, ISBN: 1-84415-231-6

Higham, Robert, and Creighton, Oliver, Medieval Town Walls: An Archaeology and Social History of Urban Defence
Tempus, ISBN: 0752414453

This book provides an up-to-date study of medieval town defences. A gazetteer guides the reader through the surviving remains, providing an aid to discovering Britian's urban walled heritage at first hand.

Jackson, Peter, The Mongols and the West 1221-1440
Pearson Longman, ISBN: 0-582-368960

Lower, Michael, The Baron's Crusade: A Call to Arms and Its Consequences 
University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN: 0-8122-3873-7

Nicholson, Helen and Nicolle, David, God's Warriors: Crusades, Saracens and the Battle for Jerusalem
Osprey Publishing, ISBN: 1-84176-943-6

A compilation of three works previously published by Osprey, namely Campaign 19: Hattin 1187; Warrior 10: Saracen Faris AD 1050-1250; and Warrior 91: Knight Templar 1120-1312.

Nicolle, David, Carolingian cavalryman, 768-987 AD
Osprey Publishing, ISBN: 1841766453

Sadler, John, Border Fury: England and Scotland at War, 1296-1568
Pearson Longman, ISBN: 0-582-77293-1

Villalon, Andrew J., and Kagay, Donald (eds.), The Hundred Years' War: A Wider Focus
Brill Publishing, ISBN: 90 04 13969 9

This volume, the first of a two-volume set, is the work of fourteen European and American scholars and focuses on the wider aspects of the Hundred Years. These essays range far afield from the traditional heartlands of Hundred Years War studies to investigate the influence of the conflict on Italy, the Low Countries, and Spain and on such topics as urban history, and the actualities of weapon use on the battlefield. A number of the essays in this collection seek to re-examine old but thorny questions long associated with the conflict, including the real immediate impact of gunpowder technology on siege warfare during the fourteenth century and the “purposeful” strategy of Henry V in staging and bringing about the battle of Agincourt in 1415. Articles include: L. J. Andrew Villalon, “Spanish Involvement in the Hundred Years War and the Battle of Najera”; Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol, “The Southern Valencia Frontier during the War of the Two Pedro's”; Donald J. Kagay, “A Government Besieged by Conflict: The Parliament of Monzon (1362-1363) as Military Financier”; Clara Estow, “War and Peace in Medieval Iberia: Castilian-Granadan Relations in the Mid-Fourteenth Century”; William P. Caferro, “The Fox and the Lion": The White Company and the Hundred Years War in Italy” ; Sergio Boffa, “The Duchy of Brabant Caught Between France and England: Geopolitics and Diplomacy during the Hundred Years War”; Peter Konieczny, “London's War Effort during the Early Years of the Reign of Edward III”; Paul Solon, “Tholosanna Fides: Toulouse as a Military Actor in Late Medieval France”; Manuel Sanchez Martinez, “The Invocation of Princeps namque in 1368 and its Repercussions for the City of Barcelona”; James E. Gilbert, “A Medieval ’Rosie the Riveter’?: Women in France and Southern England during the Hundred Years War”; Jane Marie Pinzino, “Just War, Joan of Arc, and the Politics of Salvation” ; Clifford J. Rogers, "Henry V's Military Strategy in 1415"; Kelly DeVries, “'The Walls Come Tumbling Down': Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and the Myth of Fortification Vulnerability to Early Gunpowder Weapons"; John Clement, “Wielding the Weapons of War”. Click here to read a book review.