Medieval Warfare Source Book

Author : Philip J. Haythornthwaite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840672312
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Wars Source Book written by Philip J. Haythornthwaite and published by . This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the style that caused his Napoleonic Source Book and World War One Source Book to become mainstays of military history sine their publication, Philip Haythornthwaite again brings his orderly thoroughness to the evaluation of the colonial warfare which afflicted the world in the 19th century. He provides the finest single volume narrative reference on the subject with full coverage of events involving Britain, the Americas, Africa, the Far East, the Indian sub-continent and Australia. The Colonial Wars Source Book provides biographical details of the important personalities involved, an extensive glossary, a full chapter of sources and sundry fascinating quotes and anecdotes which interweave the entertaining and informative text.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval warfare source book written by David Nicolle and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Warfare Source Book written by David Nicolle and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kelly DeVries
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442636696
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Warfare written by Kelly DeVries and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated by two of the leading experts in medieval military history, the readings in Medieval Warfare tell a story of terrors and tragedies, triumphs and technologies in the Middle Ages.

Author : David Nicolle
Publisher : Arms & Armour
ISBN 13 : 9781854093073
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Warfare Source Book written by David Nicolle and published by Arms & Armour. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete source of warfare wisdom about the Byzantines, Persians, and Muslims; the Christian-Muslim confrontation; Turks, Mongols, and the rise of Russia; the Crusades, the Reconquista, and the Counter-Crusade; and China, the Far East, and India. Take a look at the leading characters, logistics, intelligence, espionage, medical services, morale, communications, heraldry, uniforms, firearms, and more.

Author : Oliver J. Thatcher
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Source Book for Mediæval History written by Oliver J. Thatcher and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.

Author : Pamela J. Porter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802084002
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Warfare in Manuscripts written by Pamela J. Porter and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glamour associated with knights in shining armour, colourful tournaments and heroic deeds appeal strongly to the modern imagination. However, few pieces of military dress and equipment have survived to provide direct insight into the way that war was waged in the Middle Ages. For a comprehensive view of the nature of medieval warfare we rely on written documentation and the information preserved in paintings, sculptures, carvings, and other pictorial sources. The most numerous by far of these are the miniatures and drawings found in manuscript books, partly because books tend to survive better that other artefacts and partly because many individual volumes contain multiple representations. Pamela Porter presents and describes a variety of evocative manuscript illuminations in an effort to reveal them as a source of information about military dress, equipment, and practices.

Author : Maurice Keen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191542520
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Warfare : A History written by Maurice Keen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.1500). The period covered has a distinctive character in military history. It was an age when organization for war was integral to social structure, when the secular aristocrat was by necessity also a warrior, and whose culture was profoundly influenced by martial ideas. Twelve scholars, experts in their own fields, have contributed to this finely illustrated book. It is divided into two parts. Part I seeks to explore the experience of war viewed chronologically with separate chapters on, for instance, the Viking age, on the wars and expansion of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, on the Crusades and on the great Hundred Years War between England and France. The chapters in Part II trace thematically the principal developments in the art of warfare; in fortification and siege craft; in the role of armoured cavalrymen; in the employment of mercenary forces; the advent of gunpowder artillery; and of new skills in navigation and shipbuilding. In both parts of the book, the overall aim has been to offer the general reader an impression, not just of the where and the when of great confrontations, but above all of the social experience of warfare in the middle ages, and of the impact of its demands on human resources and human endurance.

Author : Robert W. Jones
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843835614
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloodied Banners written by Robert W. Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking reassessment of the role played by armour, weapons and heraldry in medieval warfare, showing their cultural as well as military significance. `A penetrating investigation of medieval martial display... The reader is struck by its originality, and by its sophisticated and critical interpretative engagement with historical and literary sources. Particularly notable is the author's subtle exploration of the function of armour: not only its practical role, but as a form of display... A refreshingly different approach to the world of the medieval combatant and his place within that "host of many colours" that was a medieval army, it adds a new dimension to our understanding of medieval warfare.' Dr ANDREW AYTON, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Hull The medieval battlefield was a place of spectacle and splendour. The fully-armed knight, bedecked in his vivid heraldic colours, mounted on his great charger, riding out beneath his brightly-painted banner, is a stock image of war and the warrior in the middle ages. Yet too often the significance of such display has been ignored or dismissed as the empty preening of a militaristic social elite. Drawing on a broad range of source material and using innovative historical approaches, this book completely re-evaluates the way that such men and their weapons were viewed, showing that martial display was a vital part of the way in which war was waged in the middle ages. It maintains that heraldry and livery served not only to advertise a warrior's family and social ties, but also announced his presence on the battlefield and right to wage war. It also considers the physiological and psychological effect of wearing armour, both on the wearer and those facing him in combat, arguing that the need for display in battle was deeper than any medieval cultural construct and was based in the fundamental biological drives of threat and warning. ROBERT W. JONES gained his PhD from Cardiff University.

Author : Ryan Lavelle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184383569X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred's Wars written by Ryan Lavelle and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare.