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Highlights ""the range and richness of scholarship on medieval warfare, military institutions, and cultures of conflict that characterize the field"". History 95 (2010) The latest collection of the most up-to-date research on matters of medieval military history contains a remarkable geographical range, extending from Spain and Britain to the southern steppe lands, by way of Scandinavia, Byzantium, and the Crusader States. At one end of the timescale is a study of population in the later Roman Empire and at the other the Hundred Years War, touching on every century in between. Topics include the hardware of war, the social origins of soldiers, considerations of individual battles, and words for weapons in Old Norse literature. Contributors: Bernard S. Bachrach, Gary Baker, Michael Ehrlich, Nicholas A. Gribit, Nicolaos S. Kanellopoulos,Mollie M. Madden, Kenneth J. McMullen, Craig M. Nakashian, Mamuka Tsurtsumia, Andrew L.J. Villalon

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Author:   Clifford J. Rogers (Customer) ,  Kelly DeVries (Customer) ,  John France (Customer) ,  Bernard S Bachrach (Author)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
Volume:   v. 12
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.524kg
ISBN:  

9781843839361

ISBN 10:   1843839369
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   19 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Some Observations Regarding Barbarian Military Demography: Gaiseric's Census of 429 and Its Implications - Bernard S Bachrach War Words and Battle Spears: The kesja and kesjulag in Old Norse Literature - K. James McMullen The Political and Military Agency of Ecclesiastical Leaders in Anglo-Norman England: 1066 - 1154 - Craig M. Nakashian Couched Lance and Mounted Shock Combat in the East: The Georgian Experience - Mamuka Tsurtsumia The Battle of Arsur: A Short Time Victory - Michael Ehrlich Prelude to Kephissos (1311): An Analysis of the Battle of Apros (1305) - Nicholas S. Kanellopoulos and Joanne K. Lekea Horse Restoration (Restaurum Equorum) in the Army of Henry of Grosmont, 1345: A Benefit of Military Service in the Hundred Years' War - Nicholas A. Gribit The Indenture between Edward III and the Black Prince for the Prince's Expedition to Gascony, 10 July 1355 - Mollie M. Madden Investigating the Socio-Economic Origins of English Archers in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century - Gary Baker War and the Great Schism: Military Factors Determining Allegiances in Iberia - Andrew Villalon

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CLIFFORD J. ROGERS is a Professor of History at the United States Military Academy and founding director of the West Point Digital History Centre. His many books and articles on medieval warfare have been recognized with awards from the Royal Historical Society's Alexander Prize to the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award and Moncado Prize, as well as two Verbruggen Prizes and the Bachrach Medal from De Re Militari. His recent work has focused on early gunpowder and gunpowder artillery. CRAIG M. NAKASHIAN is Dean of the Honors College and a professor of History at Texas A&M University-Texarkana. NICHOLAS A. GRIBIT gained his PhD from the University of Leeds.

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