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| Author | : Kelly Robert DeVries |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2012-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442604972 |
This thorough update of a classic book includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses, handguns, incendiary weapons, and siege engines, and new illustrations.
| Author | : Kelly Robert DeVries |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2012-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1442604999 |
First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses, handguns, incendiary weapons, and siege engines, and eighteen new illustrations. The four key organizing sections of the book still remain: arms and armor, artillery, fortifications, and warships. Throughout, the authors connect these technologies to broader themes and developments in medieval society as well as to current scholarly and curatorial controversies.
| Author | : Clifford J. Rogers |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 1798 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0195334035 |
This set is an excellent companion to J. R. Strayer's edited Dictionary of the Middle Ages (CH, Nov'87; Supplement I, ed. by W. C. Jordan, CH, Sep'04, 42-0044). The focus on warfare allows the editors to offer larger entries on major topics (e.g., "Agincourt," "Crusades," "Feudalism") and introduce many complementary topics. The editors are concerned with Europe; they expand coverage into Asia or Africa only because of the connection to medieval Europe. Coverage also includes an abundance of entries pertaining to Central and Eastern Europe. Most of the 1,000-plus entries are about a page in length, but a few approach 50 pages. Medium and large-size entries, such as "Chivalry," "Germany," and "Slavic Lands," discuss primary sources and very valuable historiographies. A thorough index helps readers locate the Knights Templar under "Orders, Military, Levantine Orders." Cross-references and bibliographies follow each of the signed entries. Locating reliable and scholarly information on the Knights Templar and Vlad Tepes (Dracula) is tricky. Some of the bibliographies include sources in foreign languages. For example, the references for the Black Army of Hungary are in Hungarian. Noticeably missing are entries for the many wars. This set is particularly suited to research libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by W. M. Fontane.
| Author | : Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2015-03-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0786462515 |
The Middle Ages are commonly divided into three periods--early, high or central, and late. Each period was marked by its own crises and wars, and the weapons and fighters reflected the technological and other advancements being made. This book is a richly illustrated history of warfare in Western Europe during those years. Part One, the early Middle Ages, covers the late Romans, the Germanic invaders and Byzantines, the Franks, the Vikings and Hungarians, and the Anglo-Saxons and Normans in England. Part Two, the high or central Middle Ages, considers the feudal system, knights and chivalry, knights at war, infantrymen, land warfare, siege and naval warfare, crusades in Palestine, templars and hospitalers, the Reconquista in Spain, and the Teutonic knights. Part Three, the late Middle Ages, discusses the evolution of new types of armor and weapons, the Hundred Years' War, mercenaries, and firearms.
| Author | : Martin J. Dougherty |
| Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2016-07-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0785834257 |
This awesomely illustrated and factual account sheds light on medieval warfare, as well as their weapons, armor, siege engines, and much more.
| Author | : Robert D. Smith |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2007-04-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1851095314 |
This fascinating reference covers the weapons and armor used by warriors from the 4th to the 15th century and discusses how and why they changed over time. In the Middle Ages, the lack of standardized weapons meant that one warrior's arms were often quite different from another's, even when they were fighting on the same side. And with few major technological advances in that period, the evolution of those weapons over the centuries was incremental. But evolve they ultimately did, bringing arms, armor, and siege weapons to the threshold of the modern era. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginnings of the Renaissance, Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact covers the inexorable transformation from warrior in the mail shirt to fully armored knight, from the days of spears and swords to the large-scale adoption of the handgun. Medieval Weapons covers this fascinating expanse of centuries in chapters devoted to the early medieval, Carolingian, Crusade, and late medieval periods. Within each period, the book details how weapons and armor were developed, what weapons were used for different types of battles, and how weapons and armor both influenced, and were influenced by, changing tactics in battles and sieges.
| Author | : Peter Fraser Purton |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : HISTORY |
| ISBN | : 1783272783 |
Sheds light on the skills and techniques of the medieval military engineer, over a thousand year sweep.
| Author | : Matthew Bennett |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780312348205 |
Describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Near East in an age before the widespread use of gunpowder.
| Author | : Michael Prestwich |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 1999-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300076639 |
A history of the war experience of 13th and 14th century England. With anecdotes and illustrations, it explores how English medieval armies fought, how men were recruited, how the troops were fed, supplied and deployed, the development of weapons, and the structure of military command.
| Author | : Maurice Keen |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 1999-08-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0191542520 |
This richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.1500). The period covered has a distinctive character in military history. It was an age when organization for war was integral to social structure, when the secular aristocrat was by necessity also a warrior, and whose culture was profoundly influenced by martial ideas. Twelve scholars, experts in their own fields, have contributed to this finely illustrated book. It is divided into two parts. Part I seeks to explore the experience of war viewed chronologically with separate chapters on, for instance, the Viking age, on the wars and expansion of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, on the Crusades and on the great Hundred Years War between England and France. The chapters in Part II trace thematically the principal developments in the art of warfare; in fortification and siege craft; in the role of armoured cavalrymen; in the employment of mercenary forces; the advent of gunpowder artillery; and of new skills in navigation and shipbuilding. In both parts of the book, the overall aim has been to offer the general reader an impression, not just of the where and the when of great confrontations, but above all of the social experience of warfare in the middle ages, and of the impact of its demands on human resources and human endurance.
