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The Journal of Medieval Military History. Volume VI

By Kelly DeVries , Clifford J. Rogers , John France (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
The Boydell Press
Year
2008
ISBN
1843834081, 9781843834083
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1057904 bytes)
Volume
6
Pages
170\174
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-07-27 11:54:12

Description

Latest volume in the leading forum for debate on aspects of medieval warfare. This sixth volume continues the journal's tradition of providing a wide range of scholarly studies, covering topics as diverse as Carolingian war-horse breeding, late-medieval Spanish methods of war-finance, the interface between military action and politics at the end of the Hundred Years War, and the tactical methods of Cuman warriors. A key feature of the journal is its commitment to fostering debate on the most significant issues in medieval military history, and that tradition too continues with the new volume, with a study of the relationships between communal horsemen and footsoldiers in High Medieval Italy having significant implications for the dispute over the importance of infantry before the fourteenth century. There is also an important article by Richard Abels dealing with the contrasting `cultural determinist' and `scientific' approaches to understanding the mindset of medieval warriors, and the existence (or not) of a `Western Way of War'.

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