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| Author | : Clifford J. Rogers |
| Publisher | : Greenwood |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2007-04-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Part of the 'Soldiers' Lives Through History' series, this book vividly brings to life the soldier in the Middle Ages, from Scotland to Portugal, and the Mediterranean to the Baltic. All aspects of soldiers' lifes, including weaponry, clothing, medicine, transport, and more, are examined.
| Author | : Clifford J. Rogers |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2007-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0313042012 |
The most dangerous arms in the world are those of horse and lance, because there is no means of stopping them, wrote a 15th-century commander, Jean de Bueil. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the 15th century, the men (and a few women in disguise) who reported for military service or who led other men, scouted and skirmished, plundered and burned. If they did not slaughter the peasants they met, they took them prisoner to be sold as slaves or ransomed at heavy cost. It was a brutal time. Rogers illuminates the history of medieval soldiers in wartime and in peacetime, describing the lives of those who attacked, and those who defended, the fortified castles, towns, and lands of Europe and beyond in the Middle Age.
| Author | : Thomas F. X. Noble |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 432 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0271043350 |
| Author | : Dennis E. Showalter |
| Publisher | : Greenwood |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0313333122 |
A comprehensive guide to the daily lives of European soliders in the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries covers the reasons and preparations for war, life in training and on the battlefield, and changes in these routines over the years.
| 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 | : Jack Hartnell |
| Publisher | : Profile Books |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2018-03-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 178283270X |
A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.
| Author | : Jurgen Brauer |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2008-11-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0226071650 |
Castles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly expensive, a strong castle was far cheaper to maintain than a standing army. The authors also reexamine the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II and provide new insights into France’s decision to develop nuclear weapons. Drawing on these examples and more, Brauer and Van Tuyll suggest lessons for today’s military, from counterterrorist strategy and military manpower planning to the use of private military companies in Afghanistan and Iraq. "In bringing economics into assessments of military history, [the authors] also bring illumination. . . . [The authors] turn their interdisciplinary lens on the mercenary arrangements of Renaissance Italy; the wars of Marlborough, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon; Grant's campaigns in the Civil War; and the strategic bombings of World War II. The results are invariably stimulating."—Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly "This study is serious, creative, important. As an economist I am happy to see economics so professionally applied to illuminate major decisions in the history of warfare."—Thomas C. Schelling, Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics
| Author | : Maurice Keen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2015-10-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317397584 |
Many of the combatants in the European wars of the late middle ages fought for their own gain, but they observed a code of regulations, part chivalrous and part commercial which they called the ‘law of arms’. This book, originally published in 1965, examines this soldiers’ code, to understand its rules and how they were enforced. How did a soldier sue for ransom money if his prisoner would not pay it, and before what court? How did he know whether what he took by force was lawful spoil? As the answers to these and other questions reveal, the workings of the law of arms gave practical point to the contemporary cult of chivalry. It also had an important influence on the early development of ideas of international law.
| Author | : Sherrilyn Kenyon |
| Publisher | : Writers Digest Books |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1995-03-15 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : |
Gives an overview of life in Northwestern Europe from 500 to 1500 and provides details for writers to portray the lives and times of the Middle Ages accurately.
| Author | : Richard A. Gabriel |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2006-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0313041997 |
Once warfare became established in ancient civilizations, it's hard to find any other social institution that developed as quickly. In less than a thousand years, humans brought forth the sword, sling, dagger, mace, bronze and copper weapons, and fortified towns. The next thousand years saw the emergence of iron weapons, the chariot, the standing professional army, military academies, general staffs, military training, permanent arms industries, written texts on tactics, military procurement, logistics systems, conscription, and military pay. By 2,000 B.C.E., war was an important institution in almost all major cultures of the world. This book shows readers how soldiers were recruited, outfitted, how they fought, and how they were cared for when injured or when they died. It covers soldiers in major civilizations from about 4000 B.C.E. to about 450 C.E. Topics are discussed cross-culturally, drawing examples from several of the cultures, armies, and time periods within each chapter in order to provide the reader with as comprehensive an understanding as possible and to avoid the usual Western-centric perspective too common in analyses of ancient warfare.
