Latest volume of original articles on all aspects of warfare in the middle ages. Volume III of De Re Militari's annual journal once again ranges broadly in its chronological and geographic scope, from John France's article on the evidence which early medieval Saints' Lives provide concerning warfare to Sergio Mantovani's examination of the letters of an Italian captain at the very end of the middle ages, and from Spain (Nicolas Agrait's study of early-fourteenth-century Castilian military structures) to the eastern Danube (Carroll Gillmor's surprising explanation for one of Charlemagne's greatest setbacks). Thematic approaches range from "traditional", though revisionist in content, campaign analyses (of Sir Thomas Dagworth, by Clifford J. Rogers, and of Matilda of Tuscany, by Valerie Eads), to tightly focused studies of a single document (Kelly DeVries on militia logistics in the fifteenth century), to controversial, must-read assessments of the broadest topics in medieval military history (Stephen Morillo and Richard Abels on change vs. continuity from Roman times.
Author(s): Kelly DeVries, Clifford J. Rogers (eds.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 190
City: Woodbridge
1. A Lying Legacy? A Preliminary Discussion of Images of Antiquity and Altered Reality in Medieval Military History / Richard Abels and Stephen Morillo 1
2. War and Sanctity: Saints’ Lives as Sources for Early Medieval Warfare / John France 14
3. The 791 Equine Epidemic and its Impact on Charlemagne’s Army / Carroll Gillmor 23
4. The Role of the Cavalry in Medieval Warfare / J. F. Verbruggen, translated by Kelly DeVries 46
5. Sichelgaita of Salerno: Amazon or Trophy Wife? / Valerie Eads 72
6. Castilian Military Reform under the Reign of Alfonso XI (1312-50) / Nicolas Agrait 88
7. Sir Thomas Dagworth in Brittany, 1346–7: Restellou and La Roche Derrien / Clifford Rogers 127
8. Ferrante d’Este’s Letters as a Source for Military History / Sergio Mantovani 155
Provisions for the Ostend Militia on the Defense, August 1436 / Kelly DeVries 176
