From Crecy to Mohacs: Warfare in the Late Middle Ages (1346-1526)

XXIInd Colloquium of the International Commission of Military History

Published by the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna (1997)

This volume contains papers given at the 22nd International Commission of Military History, which was held in Vienna in September, 1996.  Those interested in purchasing a copy of this book, at the price of $25 (US) can contact Peter Konieczny at peterkonieczny@hotmail.com for more information.

Contents - Articles republished online (all in PDF format)

Phillippe Contamine, "La musique militaire dans le fonstionnement des armees: l'example francais (v.1300-v.1550)"

Louis-Edouard Roulet, "Des Prealpes a l'Europe: le combattant suisse a la fin du moyen age"

Cormac O'Cleirigh, "Irish frontier warfare - A fifteenth-century case study"

Gyula Razso, "Hungarian strategy against the Ottomans (1365-1526)"

Dmetrius Dviochenko de Markov, "The battle of Tannenberg (Grunwald) in 1410"

Other articles in this volume

Leopold Auer, "Zum spatmittelalterlichen Kriegswesen in den Ostalpenlandern"

Carlos Bessa, "Le Portugal 1383-1385: crise, art militaire et consolidation de l'independance"

Matthew Bennett, "The impact of English archery on later medieval tactics"

Lars Ericson, "Farmers or mercenaries? The Swedish army in the late 15th and early 16th centuries"

Gianni Oliva, "Des armees citoyennes aux armees comunales.  L'evolution de l'infanterie en Italie du VIIIe au XIVe siecle"

Bernhard R. Kroener, "Vom Landsknecht zum Soldaten.  Anmerkungen zu Sozialprestige, Selbstverstandis und Leistungsfahigkeit von Soldaten in den Armeen des 16. Jahrhunderts"

Mordechai Gichon, "War and warfare in the writings of William Shakespeare"

Mircea Dogaru, "Les pays roumains et la bataille de Mohacs"

Luc De Vos, "La bataille de Gavere le 23 juillet 1453.  La victorie de l'organisation"

Clifford Rogers, "The offensive/defensive in medieval strategy"

Efpraxia Paschalidou, "The Walls of Constantinople: an obstacle to the new power of artillery"

Andreas Mas Chao, "Cerignola, Biocca et Pavia: L'arme a feu individuelle comme factuer decisif au combat"

Cemalettin Taskiran, "L'art de guerre dans l'Empire Ottoman et la bataille de Mohacs (jusqu'au XVIe siecle)"

Liu Lumin, "The military achievements and the strategy and tactics of Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming Dynasty"

Vladimir Seges, "Die Stadte in der Slowakei und das Miltarwesen an der Wende des Mittelalters"

Erik Wihtol, "A fight in the snow at Joutselka 1555"

Sevo Javaschtschev and Rumen Nikolov, "Die Militarstrategie des zweiten bulgarischen Staates (13.-14. Jahrhundert)"

Jose Maria Blanco Nunez, "Las armadas de Castilla y Aragon durante la Guerra de los Cien Anos"

Dino Willy Cozza, "The knights of St John at the end of the Middle Ages"

Kelly DeVries, "The technology of gunpowder weaponry in Western Europe during the Hundred Years War"

Robin Higham, "Some thoughts in late medieval warfare"

Hugh O'Donnell y Duque de Estrada, "Las galeras renacentistas en sus aspectos militares y la tactica naval en el Mediterraneo"

Pedro Pascual, "El discurso de las armas y las letras en el aeiou"

Jose L. Picciulo, "Origenes y creacion de la caballeria espanola.  Influencia en America (1493-1526)

Marek Plewczynski, "Soldnertruppen in Polen um die Wende des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts"

Angel Riesco, "Vom Kriegsvolk und den mittelalterlichen 'Kriegsscharen' zur modernen spanischen Armee als stabiler, professioneller und reprasentativer Institution des Staates"

Bernard Wicht, "L'idee de souverainete militaire populaire chez Machiavel: argument pour une lecture medievale de L'art de la guerre"

We thank the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum of Vienna for their permission to republish these articles.