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Noble Ideals and Bloody Realities : Warfare in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9004150242 9789004150249 9786611399023 1281399027 9047409124 Year: 2006 Volume: 37 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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The contributions presented in this volume address several issues related to the topic of medieval warfare from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and examining a number of geographical regions. The contributors analyze social and economic issues, military strategy, technological and medical developments, ideology and rhetoric, and address warfare in Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world. In three parts, the contributors explore warfare in theory, warfare in practice and warfare as perceived through medieval and modern historiography. In doing so they present a number of engaging case studies that will be of use to students and scholars interested in warfare and its effects on medieval society.


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Armées et combats en Syrie de 491/1098 à 569/1174 : Analyse comparée des chroniques médiévales latines et arabes
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ISBN: 9782351590256 2351590252 2821815557 2351592816 Year: 2009 Publisher: Damas : Presses de l’Ifpo,

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Dès leur arrivée en Syrie, les Francs firent preuve d’une adaptabilité multiforme. Ils intégrèrent des éléments locaux dans leurs armées, palliant ainsi leurs difficultés démographiques, même s’il faut revenir sur l’idée d’une supériorité musulmane systématique. Les armées musulmanes souffrirent longtemps d’un déficit de commandement et ne devinrent cohésives, disciplinées et correctement équipées qu’à partir de Zankī. La guerre, très présente, s’était alors déjà réglée, au moins en partie. Les coups de main rapides et la guerre de siège constituaient la majorité des affrontements. Les Francs comblèrent leur retard en matière de poliorcétique. Sur les champs de bataille, servis par un équipement lourd de qualité, leurs cavaliers perfectionnèrent leur charge massive et leur technique de la charge lance couchée; les cavaliers turcs, polyvalents, y répondirent par une discipline et une mobilité plus grandes encore.


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The De re militari of Vegetius : the reception, transmission and legacy of a Roman text in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9781107000278 1107000270 9780511719929 9781107684461 1107684463 1139152785 1107226465 1139160303 9786613342393 1139155733 1283342391 113916130X 1139159259 1139157485 0511719922 9781139161305 9781283342391 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Vegetius' late Roman text became a well-known and highly respected 'classic' in the Middle Ages, transformed by its readers into the authority on the waging of war. Christopher Allmand analyses the medieval afterlife of the De Re Militari, tracing the growing interest in the text from the Carolingian world to the late Middle Ages, suggesting how the written word may have influenced the development of military practice in that period. While emphasising that success depended on a commander's ability to outwit the enemy with a carefully selected, well-trained and disciplined army, the De Re Militari inspired other unexpected developments, such as that of the 'national' army, and helped create a context in which the role of the soldier assumed greater social and political importance. Allmand explores the significance of the text and the changes it brought for those who accepted the implications of its central messages.

Victory in the East : a military history of the First Crusade
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ISBN: 0521419697 9781461949091 1461949092 9781107390164 1107390168 9780521419697 0521589878 9780521589871 9780511562426 1139881922 9781139881920 1107383722 9781107383722 1107398584 9781107398580 1107387310 9781107387317 110738494X 051156242X Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The success of the First Crusade, and its capture of Jerusalem in 1099, has been conventionally explained in terms of its ideological and political motivation. This book looks at the First Crusade primarily as a military campaign and asks why it was so successful. Modern writing about the crusade has tended to emphasise the moral dimension and the development of the idea of the crusade, but its fate was ultimately decided on the field of battle. Victory in the East looks at the nature of war at the end of the eleventh century and the military experience of all the contending parties in order to explain its extraordinary success. It is the first such examination, taking into account all other factors but emphasising the military.

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