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The articles here offer a wide range of approaches to medieval warfare. They include traditional studies of strategy (on Baybars) and the logistics of Edward II's wars, as well as cultural history (an examination of chivalry in Guy of Warwick) intellectual history (a broad analysis of strategic theory in the Middle Ages), and social history (on knightly training in arms). The Hundred Years War is studied using cutting-edge methodology (data-driven analysis of skirmishes) and by tackling relatively new areas of inquiry (environmental history). There is also a close reading of Carolingian documents, which sheds new light on armies and warfare in the time of Charles the Great.
Author(s): John France, Kelly DeVries, Clifford J. Rogers (eds.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 224
City: Woodbridge
List of Illustrations vii
1. In the Field with Charlemagne, 791 / Carl I. Hammer 1
2. The Recruitment of Freemen into the Carolingian Army, or, How Far May One Argue from Silence? / Walter Goffart 17
3. Baybars’ Strategy of War against the Franks / Rabei G. Khamisy 35
4. Food, Famine, and Edward II’s Military Failures / Ilana Krug 63
5. The Impacts of Warfare on Woodland Exploitation in Late Medieval Normandy (1364–1380): Royal Forests as Military Assets during the Hundred Years’ War / Danny Lake-Giguère 79
6. Exercises in Arms: the Physical and Mental Combat Training of Men-at-Arms in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries / Pierre Gaite 99
7. The Skirmish: A Statistical Analysis of Minor Combats during the Hundred Years’ War, 1337–1453 / Ronald W. Braasch III 123
8. Yron & Stele: Chivalric Ethos, Martial Pedagogy, Equipment, and Combat Technique in the Early Fourteenth-Century Middle English Version of 'Guy of Warwick' / Brian R. Price 159
9. Reframing the Conversation on Medieval Military Strategy / John D. Hosler 189
List of Contributors 207
