Medieval Warfare
History of the Art of War, Volume III
Hans Delbrück author Walter J Renfroe Jr translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Published:1st Dec '90
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Medieval Warfare begins in the time of Charlemagne. These pages are crowded with re-creations of famous events like the Battle of Hastings and movements like the Crusades.
From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism determined the nature of European warfare. Medieval Warfare is full of recreations of famous events such as the Battle of Hastings and movements like the Crusades; with the brightest flowers of knighthood, and with the mercenary grandeur of Byzantium.From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism determined the nature of European warfare. Medieval Warfare begins in the time of Charlemagne, who maintained a military system of freemen and of vassals bound to him in service for lands granted in fief. These pages are crowded with recreations of famous events like the Battle of Hastings and movements like the Crusades; with the brightest flowers of knighthood, and with the mercenary grandeur of Byzantium.
Hans Delbrück shows how feudal military organization varied in different countries and why the knightly forces could not hold up against the barbarous Normans. He studies military developments in the kingdoms that rose with the collapse of the Carolingian Empire, as well as the trend toward mercenary armies. When the Swiss peasants, forming the first true infantry, defeated the Burgundian knights in the fourteenth century, the era of modern warfare had begun.
ISBN: 9780803265851
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 936g
712 pages