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.
Author(s): Clifford J. Rogers, Kelly DeVries, John France (eds.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 254
City: Woodbridge
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1. Some Observations Regarding Barbarian Military Demography: Geiseric’s Census of 429 and Its Implications / Bernard S. Bachrach 1
2. War Words and Battle Spears: The 'kesja' and 'kesjulag' in Old Norse Literature / K. James McMullen 39
3. The Political and Military Agency of Ecclesiastical Leaders in Anglo-Norman England: 1066–1154 / Craig M. Nakashian 51
4. Couched Lance and Mounted Shock Combat in the East: The Georgian Experience / Mamuka Tsurtsumia 81
5. The Battle of Arsur: A Short-Lived Victory / Michael Ehrlich 109
6. Prelude to Kephissos (1311): An Analysis of the Battle of Apros (1305) / Nikolaos S. Kanellopoulos and Ioanna K. Lekea 119
7. 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 139
8. The Indenture between Edward III and the Black Prince for the Prince’s Expedition to Gascony, 10 July 1355 / Mollie M. Madden 165
9. Investigating the Socio-Economic Origins of English Archers in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century / Gary Baker 173
10. War and the Great Schism: Military Factors Determining Allegiances in Iberia / L. J. Andrew Villalon 217
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