This volume has a special focus on the topic of proxy actors and irregular forces in medieval warfare. John France and Jochen G. Schenk offer broad overviews: France addresses the military role of non-noble combatants and the significance of differences between medieval and modern ideas of the "legitimacy" of war-fighters, while Schenk applies a concept originating in political science - Mary Kaldor's idea of "New Wars" - to the conflicts of the Middle Ages, showing that in some ways, what is old is new again. Alex Mallett likewise ties the past to the present, comparing Muslim responses to the Crusades with modern responses to the Western-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Michael Lower and Mike Carr, meanwhile, examine important groups of foreign fighters employed by North African states and Byzantium. In addition, the volume encompasses a study of Anglo-Norman siege engines (by Michael Fulton), three pieces on war and politics in fourteenth-century Iberia (by Douglas Biggs, Donald Kagay, and L. J. Andrew Villalon), and David Green's magisterial survey of imperial policy and military practice in the Plantagenet dominions in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Author(s): John France, Kelly DeVries, Clifford J. Rogers (eds.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 194
City: Woodbridge
1. Anglo-Norman Artillery in Narrative Histories, from the Reign of William I to the Minority of Henry III / Michael S. Fulton 1
2. Imperial Policy and Military Practice in the Plantagenet Dominions, c. 1337 – c. 1453 / David Green 33
3. The Parliament of the Crown of Aragon as Military Financier in the War of the Two Pedros / Donald J. Kagay 57
4. Chasing the Chimera in Spain: Edmund of Langley in Iberia, 1381/82 / Douglas Biggs 79
5. Note: A Medieval City under Threat Turns Its Coat, while Hedging Its Bets – Burgos Faces an Invasion in Spring 1366 / L. J. Andrew Villalon 99
Proxy Actors and Irregular Forces in Medieval Warfare
6. Medieval European Mercenaries in North Africa: The Value of Difference / Michael Lower 105
7. Medieval Irregular Warfare, c. 1000–1300 / John France 123
8. Muslim Responses to Western Intervention: A Comparative Study of the Crusades and Post-2003 Iraq / Alex Mallett 133
9. “New Wars” and Medieval Warfare: Some Terminological Considerations / Jochen G. Schenk 149
10. Friend or Foe? The Catalan Company as Proxy Actors in the Aegean and Asia Minor Vacuum / Mike Carr 163
List of Contributors 179
