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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.

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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