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In a sequel to two earlier books about Medieval warfare, Santosuasso (emeritus history, U. of Western Ontario) covers the period from the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century to the last stages of the Middle Ages in the 15th. He places the main changes in warfare and its motivations within their political, cultural, and social contexts. The chronology is arranged by country.
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Barbarians, marauders, and infidels: the ways of medieval warfare
2004, MJF Books
in English
1567318916 9781567318913
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. The barbarian kingdoms. 1. Attila is dead : the early barbarian kingdoms
2. A double pestilence : Ostrogoths and Byzantines in Italy
3. The arrival of the Longobards
4. The Franks and the emergence of France
pt. 2. The Muslim empire. 5. God, his prophet, and war : the origins
6. The conquest of the Fertile Crescent : Muslims in Syria and Iraq
7. The Muslim strike into North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula
pt. 3. New invaders and the expansion of the west, 800-1300. 8. Armor, weapons, and soldiers
9. Protecting the borders against the new enemies : Vikings and Magyars
10. The Norman Conquest of England
11. The war against walls
12. The way of the masters : men on horseback
13. The way of the commoners : soldiers on foot
14. The Crusades, or God at war
pt. 4. The end of the Middle Ages, 1300-1453. 15. The Hundred Years War : a matter of contradictions and resilience
16. The Maid of Orleans and women at war
17. "Waging war gives me bread
peace destroys me"
18. New weapons, new men, new ideas.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-332) and index.
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