The Medieval Fighting Man Europa Militaria Special No 18

Author : Jens Hill
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
ISBN 13 : 9781785000096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Fighting Man - Europa Militaria Special No. 18 written by Jens Hill and published by Crowood Press UK. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval times an individual often needed to defend his life, his family and his property. Mercenaries earned their living by hiring out their skills, while feudal noblemen regularly mustered their men-at-arms and their subordinate vassals and tenants to provide military service, even to the point of leading them on Crusades to the Holy Land and elsewhere. In the later medieval period the growing cities required their citizens to take up arms as militia in defence of the community during times of external threat. Here meticulous use is made of the sources available to enable the materials, colours and patterns used for reconstructed clothing to represent the 'real thing' as accurately as possible. Fortunately, great numbers of medieval weapons and pieces of armour survived and can now be viewed in displays, and these form the basis of the arms presented in this book.

Author : Jens Hill
Publisher : Crowood
ISBN 13 : 1785000101
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Fighting Man written by Jens Hill and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In medieval times an individual often needed to defend his life, his family and his property, and mercenaries earned their living by hiring out their skills, while feudal noblemen regularly mustered their men-at-arms and their subordinate vassals and tenants to provide military service, even to the point of leading them on Crusades to the Holy Land and elsewhere. In the later medieval period the growing cities required their citizens to take up arms as militia in defence of the community during times of external threat. In The Medieval Fighting Man - Europa Militaria Special No 18, meticulous use is made of the sources available to enable the materials, colours and patterns used for reconstructed clothing to represent the 'real thing' as accurately as possible. Fortunately, great numbers of medieval weapons and pieces of armour survived and can now be viewed in displays, and these form the basis of the arms presented in this book. This well-researched guide to the costume and equipment of the Medieval fighting man through the period 800-1500 will be of interest to all collectors, re-enactors, costumiers and military historians, and is fully illustrated with 147 colour photographs.

Author : Chris Peers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473863694
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Stephen and The Anarchy written by Chris Peers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed kingdoms of medieval Europe. But perhaps the impact of the conflict has been overstated, and its effect on the common people across the country is hard to judge. That is why Chris Peerss fresh study of this fascinating and controversial era is of such value. He describes each phase of this civil war, in particular the castles and sieges that dominated strategic thinking, and he sets the fighting in the context of the changing tactics and military systems of the twelfth century. His fresh account of this pivotal episode in the medieval history of England will be absorbing reading anyone who is keen to gain an insight into this period of English history and has a special interest in the practice of medieval warfare.

Author : Gerry Embleton
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
ISBN 13 : 9781861263711
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Military Costume written by Gerry Embleton and published by Crowood Press UK. This book was released on 2001-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reenactors wearing carefully created costumes, photographed in authentic settings, provide a snapshot of spear men, archers, crossbow men, gunners, and knights from the period 1300-1500. Detailed photographs are supported by artwork showing scores of original images from period paintings, carvings and manuscript illustrations revealing what it was like to live, work, and fight during the Middle Ages. Europa Militaria Special No. 8.

Author : John Henshaw
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 1785004026
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Town Class Destroyers written by John Henshaw and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in World War II, fifty obsolete US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy in return for a 99-year lease on British bases in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Newfoundland. Though they were obsolete and far from ideal, they played a vital role in the Royal Navy's campaign. This is their complete story. Topics covered include the background to the acquisition of the ships, the Battle of the Atlantic; their specification and design, and modifications in RN service; operations and achievements, such as the St Nazaire raid and finally, losses and accidents. This authoritative text is supported by many contemporary photographs and twenty eight detailed plans prepared specially for this book. Superbly illustrated with fifty contemporary black & white photographs and twenty-eight plans specially drawn by the author.

Author : Terence Wise
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782008764
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval European Armies written by Terence Wise and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost continual warfare raged in Europe during the period 1300-1500. These wars were the furnaces in which many of the modern European nations were forged. Parallel with this emergence of the nations came the development of national armies to protect the newly-won borders and independence, yet throughout this period the old feudal method of raising an army persisted. This fascinating study by Terence Wise explores the organisation, weapons and equipment of the armies who fought across medieval Europe, from the Hundred Years War to the fight against the Moors in Spain and the French invasion of Italy.

Author : Maurice Keen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198206399
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Warfare written by Maurice Keen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval period was a singular epoch in military history--an age profoundly influenced by martial ideals, whose very structure of society was organized for war, and whose leaders were by necessity warriors. Now, the richly illustrated Medieval Warfare illuminates this era, examining over seven hundred years of European conflict, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (1500). Twelve scholars examine medieval warfare in two sections. The first section explores the experience of war chronologically, with essays on 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 second section traces developments in the art of warfare: fortification and siege craft, the role of armored cavalrymen, the use of mercenary forces, the birth of gunpowder artillery, and the new skills in navigation and shipbuilding.

Author : Bernard S. Bachrach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000429512
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453 written by Bernard S. Bachrach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare in Medieval Europe, now in its second edition, offers considerably more attention to the transition from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages, the composition of the armies of the opponents of the West, and the experience of commanders and individual combatants on the battlefield. This second revised and expanded edition provides a more in-depth thematic discussion of the nature and conduct of war, with an emphasis on its overall impact on society, from the late Roman Empire to the end of the Hundred Years’ War. The authors explore the origins of the institutions, physical infrastructure, and intellectual underpinnings of warfare, with chapters on military topography, military technology, logistics, combat, and strategy. Bernard and David Bachrach have also added a new chapter, which provides two detailed campaign narratives that highlight the themes treated throughout the text. The geographical scope of the volume encompasses Latin Europe, the Slavic World, Scandinavia, and the eastern Mediterranean, with a particular focus on the conflict between Western Christianity and the Islamic Near East. Written in an accessible and engaging way, Warfare in Medieval Europe is the ideal resource for all students of the history of medieval warfare.

Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of War in the Middle Ages: Military History of Europe (378-1515) written by Charles Oman and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of War has been very simply defined as "the art which enables any commander to worst the forces opposed to him." This book shows the evolution of European warfare throughout the middle ages from Roman legions to the first use of fire arms: _x000D_ The Transition from Roman to Medieval Forms in War - A.D. 378–582._x000D_ The Early Middle Ages - A.D. 476–1066–81._x000D_ The Byzantines and their Enemies - A.D. 582–1071._x000D_ The Supremacy of Feudal Cavalry - A.D. 1066–1346._x000D_ The Swiss - A.D. 1315–1515._x000D_ The English and their Enemies - A.D. 1272–1485.

Author : W. M. Spellman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349272000
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Political Thought 1600–1700 written by W. M. Spellman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European seventeenth century saw the seeming resolution of two great conflicts. Through the nightmares of the Thirty Years War and the British civil wars, the murderous religious hatreds that had dominated the previous period finally burnt themselves out. Extreme Protestants were defeated, expelled, contained or subordinated, and Catholicism successfully re-established itself through much of Europe as the dominant religion. Dr. Spellman studies all the great political theorists of the century (dominated inevitably by Hobbes). This book will be invaluable for anyone studying seventeenth century European history - it allows those studying the thought of the period to understand the historical context, and those studying the military and political events to understand their intellectual underpinning.