Almena Liberia Editorial, 2011. — 89 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 69) La edad media en la península ibérica estuvo plagada de acciones militares; la mayoría de ellas desarrolladas en lo que hoy conocemos como reconquista; pero también hubo frecuentes luchas entre los diversos reinos cristianos peninsulares; esta que traemos a la colección guerreros y batallas es una de ellas:...
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2008. — 97 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 47) La denominada “Guerra de los Dos Pedros”, por implicar a los reyes Pedro I de Castilla y Pedro IV de Aragón, resultó ser uno de los conflictos más importantes que tuvieron lugar en la Península Ibérica durante el tiempo de la Reconquista. Al cruzarse en ella la disputa entre el rey castellano y su hermano...
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. — 232 p. Japan s monastic warriors have fared poorly in comparison to the samurai, both in terms of historical reputation and representations in popular culture. Often maligned and criticized for their involvement in politics and other secular matters, they have been seen as figures separate from the larger military class. However, as Mikael...
Routledge, 2022. — 246 p. This Variorum collection of articles is intended to illustrate that conflict in the late Middle Ages was not only about soldiers and fighting (about the makers and the making of war), important as these were. Just as it remains in our own day, war was a subject which attracted writers (commentators, moralists and social critics among them), some of...
Routledge, 2022. — 246 p. This Variorum collection of articles is intended to illustrate that conflict in the late Middle Ages was not only about soldiers and fighting (about the makers and the making of war), important as these were. Just as it remains in our own day, war was a subject which attracted writers (commentators, moralists and social critics among them), some of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 272 p. Depicting one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, The Battle of Maldon immortalises the bloody fight that took place along the banks of the tidal river Blackwater in 991, poignantly expressing the lore and language of a determined nation faced with the advance of a ruthless and relentless enemy. But, as Mark Atherton reveals,...
Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH, — 240 p. — (The Danish Castle Research Association “Magt, Borg og Landskab” Interdisciplinary Symposium 2013). Cfntents: Part I: The Role of Casteles on Political Dtrategy Aleksander Andrzejewski and Leszek Kajzer , Castles of the Polish Nobility: A Case Study on the Basis of the Family Koniecpolski of Pobóg. Knut Arstad , The Use of Castles as...
Routledge, 2016. — 444 p. "Warfare in Medieval Europe c. 400-c.1453" provides a thematic discussion of the nature and conduct of war, including its economic, technological, social, and religious contexts, from the late Roman Empire to the end of the Hundred Years’ War. The geographical scope of this volume encompasses Latin Europe from Iberia to Poland and from Scandinavia and...
Routledge, 2016. — 444 p. Warfare in Medieval Europe c. 400-c.1453 provides a thematic discussion of the nature and conduct of war, including its economic, technological, social, and religious contexts, from the late Roman Empire to the end of the Hundred Years’ War. The geographical scope of this volume encompasses Latin Europe from Iberia to Poland and from Scandinavia and...
Routledge, 2016. — 444 p. "Warfare in Medieval Europe c. 400-c.1453" provides a thematic discussion of the nature and conduct of war, including its economic, technological, social, and religious contexts, from the late Roman Empire to the end of the Hundred Years’ War. The geographical scope of this volume encompasses Latin Europe from Iberia to Poland and from Scandinavia and...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 422 p. Warfare in Medieval Europe , now in its second edition, offers considerably more attention to the transition from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages, the composition of the armies of the opponents of the West, and the experience of commanders and individual combatants on the battlefield. This second revised and expanded...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2021. — 422 p. Warfare in Medieval Europe , now in its second edition, offers considerably more attention to the transition from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages, the composition of the armies of the opponents of the West, and the experience of commanders and individual combatants on the battlefield. This second revised and expanded...
Routledge, 2020. — 312 p. The essays brought together in this volume examine the conduct of war by the Angevin kings of England during the long thirteenth century (1189-1307). Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished administrative records that have been largely ignored by previous scholarship, David S. Bachrach offers new insights into the military technology of the period,...
Routledge, 2020. — 312 p. The essays brought together in this volume examine the conduct of war by the Angevin kings of England during the long thirteenth century (1189-1307). Drawing upon a wide range of unpublished administrative records that have been largely ignored by previous scholarship, David S. Bachrach offers new insights into the military technology of the period,...
Boydell Press, 2012. — 324 p. Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, Henry I (919-936) and Otto I (936-973), waged war across the length and breadth of Europe. Ottonian armies campaigned from the banks of the Oder in the east to the Seine in the west, and from the shores of the Baltic Sea in the north, to the Adriatic and Mediterranean in...
Boydell Press, 2012. — 324 p. Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, Henry I (919-936) and Otto I (936-973), waged war across the length and breadth of Europe. Ottonian armies campaigned from the banks of the Oder in the east to the Seine in the west, and from the shores of the Baltic Sea in the north, to the Adriatic and Mediterranean in...
Routledge, 2021. — 370 p. Writing the Military History of Pre-Crusade Europe brings together fourteen articles by eminent historians David S. Bachrach and Bernard S. Bachrach. Crucial to the writing of medieval military history is a thorough understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the available source materials. Just as important is a broad conception of the range of...
Routledge, 2021. — 370 p. Writing the Military History of Pre-Crusade Europe brings together fourteen articles by eminent historians David S. Bachrach and Bernard S. Bachrach. Crucial to the writing of medieval military history is a thorough understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the available source materials. Just as important is a broad conception of the range of...
3 edizione — Laterza, 2017. — 242 p. Due città rivali, Siena e Firenze. Due fazioni in lotta, guelfi e ghibellini. Due poteri che si scontrano, Impero e Chiesa. Tutti questi conflitti convergono il 4 settembre 1260 a Montaperti per dare vita a una battaglia che sembrò segnare una svolta nella storia d’Italia. Lo scontro fu durissimo. La sera sul campo rimasero così tanti...
Sugar Edizioni, 1986. — 455 p. La prima parte del libro descrive il guerriero feudale: le radici della cavalleria, le cerimonie ad essa legate, l'evoluzione del cavaliere come soldato, uomo di pace e di giustizia, amministratore. Chansons de geste, allegorie, romantici racconti, biografie eroiche: tutto viene esposto con dovizia di particolari e i personaggi, realmente esistiti...
Bellona, 2018. — 290 p. Przyczyny, przebieg i wynik wojny toczonej pomiędzy Bolesławem Chrobrym a królem niemieckim Henrykiem II. Publikacja OPISuje przyczyny, przebieg i wynik wojny toczonej z przerwami w latach 1002-1018 pomiędzy władcą Polski Bolesławem Chrobrym a królem niemieckim (od 1014 roku cesarzem) Henrykiem II. Pierwszym z powodów konfliktu był spór terytorialny o...
Bellona, 2021. — 206 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Niniejszy tom ukazuje wyprawy duńskiego króla Waldemara I i biskupa Absalona na południowo-zachodnie wybrzeża Bałtyku w latach 1157-1168. Mimo że Słowianie stawiali mężny opór, musieli ulec silniejszym najeźdźcom. Ukoronowaniem duńskich podbojów było zdobycie wyspy Rugii wraz z Arkoną, sławnym i bogatym ośrodkiem kultu pogańskiego...
Helion and Company, 2023. — 224 p. The year 1066 is a date in English history that changed the way people lived and were governed, as well as transforming the language of the land. Astonishingly, this book finds the traditional site attracting many thousands of visitors each year is not where the battle was actually fought. The death of King Edward the Confessor in January 1066...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 160 p. The opening years of the fifteenth century saw one of the most bitterly contested political and military convulsions in the history of the British Isles, a conflict that is too-often overlooked by military historians. Henry IV, who had overthrown and probably murdered his predecessor Richard II, fought a protracted and bloody campaign...
Perrin, 2018. — 400 p. Retour sur l'un des épisodes fondateurs de la nation France et du roman national: la victoire des chevaliers de Philippe Auguste lors de la batailles de Bouvines. La bataille de Bouvines, remportée le 27 juillet 1214 par Philippe Auguste, près de Lille, sur un empereur allemand, un comte de Flandre et d'autres coalisés, que finançait tous le roi...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1972. — 294 p. First published 1971 by Cornell University Press. First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 1972. Feudal military practices, which are as varied as those of modern times, are surveyed here for the first time. The author treats in detail the bases on which feudal service was exacted, the mustering and composition of armies and their...
Boydell Press, 2011. — 246 p. — (Warfare in History, 36)
The "long" fourteenth century saw England fighting wars on a number of diverse fronts - not just abroad, in the Hundred Years War, but closer to home. But while tactics, battles, and logistics have been frequently discussed, the actual experience of being a soldier has been less often studied. Via a careful re-evaluation...
Boydell Press, 2011. — 246 p. — (Warfare in History, 36). The "long" fourteenth century saw England fighting wars on a number of diverse fronts - not just abroad, in the Hundred Years War, but closer to home. But while tactics, battles, and logistics have been frequently discussed, the actual experience of being a soldier has been less often studied. Via a careful re-evaluation...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 376 p. The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, a process that intensified during the early Middle Ages and came to be a defining characteristic of the period. It encompassed features like the lack of demarcation between the military and civil spheres of the population, the significance attributed to...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 376 p. The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, a process that intensified during the early Middle Ages and came to be a defining characteristic of the period. It encompassed features like the lack of demarcation between the military and civil spheres of the population, the significance attributed to...
Manchester University Press, 2021. — 376 p. The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, a process that intensified during the early Middle Ages and came to be a defining characteristic of the period. It encompassed features like the lack of demarcation between the military and civil spheres of the population, the significance attributed to...
Routledge, 2017. — 238 p. This volume explores the issues of taking, using and being hostages in the Middle Ages. It brings together recent research in the areas of hostages and hostageships, looking at the act of hostage-taking and the hostages themselves through the lenses of political and social history. Building upon previous work, this volume in particular critically examines...
2nd Edition. — The History Press, 2022. — 224 p. First published in 1998, this classic study of the medieval soldier in the Wars of the Roses examines these and other questions using various documentary sources and recent evidence. Eyewitness accounts, contemporary chronicles, personal letters, civic records, archaeology and surviving military equipment are used to paint a...
Second Edition. — The History Press, 2022. — 224 p. First published in 1998, this classic study of the medieval soldier in the Wars of the Roses examines these and other questions using various documentary sources and recent evidence. Eyewitness accounts, contemporary chronicles, personal letters, civic records, archaeology and surviving military equipment are used to paint a...
The Boydell Press, 2004. — 312 p. The medieval duchy of Brabant was one of the most powerful principalities of the Low Countries. During the second half of the fourteenth century, it underwent a particularly dramatic period in its history: the House of Leuven was on the point of disappearance, the duchy was coveted by Philip the Bold of Burgundy, who was already dreaming of...
Boydell Press, 2004. — 312 p. An account of the causes, combatants and course of events in the successive conflicts which troubled the duchy for half a century. The medieval duchy of Brabant was one of the most powerful principalities of the Low Countries. During the second half of the fourteenth century, it underwent a particularly dramatic period in its history: the House of...
Routledge, 2006. — 247 p. In August 955 a battle took place that effectively ended the incursions of steppe nomads into Western Europe. The forces of Otto the Great annihilated a huge army of Hungarian mounted archers in an encounter that is generally known as the battle of Lechfeld, a broad plain near Augsburg in southern Germany. Since even after a defeat these elusive...
Boydell Press, 1997. — 208 p. This book traces the history of the archer in the medieval period, from the Norman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses. From a close study of early evidence, Mr Bradbury shows that the archer's role before the time of Edward I was an important but rarely documented one, and that his new prominence in the fourteenth century was the result of changes...
Routledge, 2004. — 380 p. This comprehensive volume provides easily accessible factual material on all major areas of warfare in the medieval west. The whole geographical area of medieval Europe, including eastern Europe, is covered, together with essential elements from outside Europe such as Byzantine warfare, nomadic horde invasions and the Crusades. The Routledge Companion...
Routledge, 2004. — 380 p. This comprehensive volume provides easily accessible factual material on all major areas of warfare in the medieval west. The whole geographical area of medieval Europe, including eastern Europe, is covered, together with essential elements from outside Europe such as Byzantine warfare, nomadic horde invasions and the Crusades. The Routledge Companion...
Anthem Press, 2020. — 152 p. British Battles 493–937 deals with thirteen conflicts, either locating them correctly or explaining some of their aspects which have puzzled historians. They include the following: Mount Badon (493) at Braydon, Wiltshire; battles of the British hero Arthur (the legendary 'King Arthur') (536–7) in southern Scotland or the borders; 'Degsastan' (603)...
Anthem Press, 2020. — 152 p. British Battles 493–937 deals with thirteen conflicts, either locating them correctly or explaining some of their aspects which have puzzled historians. They include the following: Mount Badon (493) at Braydon, Wiltshire; battles of the British hero Arthur (the legendary 'King Arthur') (536–7) in southern Scotland or the borders; 'Degsastan' (603)...
The History Press, 2014. — 419 p. The Battle of Bannockburn is the most celebrated battle in history between Scotland and England. Fought over two days on 23 and 24 June 1314 by a small river crossing in Stirling, it was a decisive victory for Robert the Bruce in the Scottish Wars of Independence against the English, which saw a mere 7,000 Bruce followers defeat over 15,000 of...
Edinburgh University Press, 2004. — 392 p. — (New Edinburgh History of Scotland). The Wars of Scotland is the story of the pivotal period in Scottish history between 1214 and 1371. The century and a half between the death of King William the Lion and the accession of the Stewarts witnessed major changes in the internal character of the kingdom and its place in the wider...
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 239 p. When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a generation these men would have seized control of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily. How did they make such extraordinary gains and then consolidate their power? Paul...
Pen & Sword Military, 2016. — 240 p. When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a few generations, by force of arms, some of these men and other later arrivals would seize control of Apulia, Campania, Calabria and Sicily. How did they make...
Pen & Sword Military, 2016. — 240 p. When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a few generations, by force of arms, some of these men and other later arrivals would seize control of Apulia, Campania, Calabria and Sicily. How did they make...
Pen & Sword Military, 2016. — 240 p. When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a few generations, by force of arms, some of these men and other later arrivals would seize control of Apulia, Campania, Calabria and Sicily. How did they make...
Laterza, 2022. — 528 p. Quando pensiamo al Medioevo, automaticamente ci vengono in mente immagini di spade, castelli e armature. Quasi ogni cosa che ricordiamo di questo periodo storico ha a che fare con battaglie, duelli o assedi. Mai come nei mille anni dell’Età di Mezzo, la guerra ha occupato uno spazio così centrale nella vita degli uomini. In queste pagine troveremo tutte...
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2021. — 98 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 142) El conflicto suscitado por Ia reclamación de Ia corona francesa por Eduardo III, rey de Inglaterra, titular por su parte del ducado de Guyena, reclamado por Felipe VI de Francia, es considerado como la causa fundamental de una larga guerra que comenzó en 1337 y se prolongó durante más de un siglo. Una de...
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2018. — 114 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 126) En los campos de Montiel se escribió el epílogo del reinado de Pedro I, uno de los más conflictivos de la Historia de España al estar marcado por el enfrentamiento del monarca con la nobleza, con el vecino reino de Aragón y, especialmente, con su hermana
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2014. — 88 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 95) El reinado de Pedro I fue sin duda uno de los más conflictivos de la Historia de España; olvidando el impulso reconquistador de su padre, dedicó sus afanes a enfrentarse con la nobleza y con el reino de Aragón. Aliados los nobles que pretendían destronar al monarca castellano, con Enrique de Trastámara al...
Il Mulino, 2014. — 668 p. Il guerriero a cavallo, con il suo prestigio anche simbolico, ci perviene dal profondo della preistoria, in termini tanto di valori quanto di pratiche di vita e di combattimento. Dagli sciamani centroasiatici ai guerrieri barbari, dagli dèi nordici ai martiri cristiani, senza dimenticare l’evoluzione dell’allevamento, l’affinarsi delle tecniche...
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 272 p. Warfare in the Medieval World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe in the period between the fall of Rome and the introduction of reliable gunpowder weapons during the Thirty Years' War. Through an exploration of thirty-three selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 217 p. Like William Wallace in Scotland, Owain Glyndwr fought for his country and was only finally defeated by superior numbers and the military genius of Henry V. Yet Glyndwr was not just a freedom fighter. He was the last native-born Prince of Wales, a man who initiated the first Welsh parliament at Machynlleth and proposed an entirely...
Bretwalda Books, 2014. — 50 p. A book about the bloody Battle of Lewes, fought in 1264 that was a key victory for the rebels under Simon de Montfort who sought to limit the powers of the king. The sweeping victory of the rebels at Lewes had a profound effect on England. A Parliament was summoned that for the first time included commoners as well as nobles and clergy, the king...
Boydell Press, 2015. — 284 p. Not only the leaders but the entire nation are trained in war. Sound the trumpet for battle and the peasant will rush from his plough to pick up his weapons as quickly as the courtier from the court. So wrote Gerald of Wales atthe end of the twelfth century; and war continued to define the experiences of Welshmen in the succeeding years. This book...
Charles River Editors, 2020. — 185 p. The Middle Ages witnessed almost constant warfare in Europe, so mercenaries were a constant on the battlefield, but the 15th century also saw the rise of mercenary usage by the increasingly wealthy aristocracy. At the time, England and France existed in smaller versions than in the modern age, while the Spanish had unified into a few large...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 59 p. In 1494, there were five sovereign regional powers in Italy: Milan, Venice, Florence, the Papal States and Naples. In 1536, only one remained: Venice. These decades of conflict precipitated great anxiety among Western thinkers, and Italians responded to the fragmentation, forevermore, of Latin Christendom, the end of self-governance...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 61 p. However diverse Sicily might be, it is also paradoxically considered to be an emblem of Italy itself, a paradox it shares with Naples. In fact, Frederick II was the last ruler of a fully autonomous Sicily, and his son, Manfred (ruled in 1254-1258), was the final Norman ruler in Sicily. Manfred met his death heroically on the...
Charles River Editors, 2017. — 91 р. In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent, many of today’s European nations were formed, the Catholic Church rose to great prominence, some of history’s most famous wars occurred, and a social class system was instituted that lasted over 1,000 years. A lot of activity took...
Charles River Editors, 2015. — 50 p. In the time period between the fall of Rome and the spread of the Renaissance across the European continent, many of today’s European nations were formed, the Catholic Church rose to great prominence, some of history’s most famous wars occurred, and a social class system was instituted that lasted over 1,000 years. A lot of activity took...
Boydell and Brewer, 2000. — 302 p. Warfare in Europe in the middle ages underwent a marked change of emphasis as urban life expanded. The concentration of wealth represented by a city was a valuable objective, and the static nature of a siege was infinitely preferable to the uncertainties of campaign. As the incidence of sieges increased, so pitched battles declined. The...
Boydell and Brewer, 2016. — 271 p. The notion of "guilds" in civic society might conjure images of craft guilds, the organisations of butchers, bakers or brewers set up to regulate working practises. In the towns of medieval Flanders, however, a plethora of guilds existed which had little or nothing to do with the organisation of labour, including chambers of rhetoric, urban...
Faber & Faber, 2008. — 342 p. Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Coupled with dramatic set piece battles, a wealth...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 762 p. Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled...
Second edition. — University of Wales Press, 2014. — 260 p. The story of Wales from the end of the Roman period to the conquest by Edward I in 1283 is unknown to most, but recent historiography has opened up the source material and allowed for a modern, critical reappraisal. The development of the country is traced within the context of the rest of post-Roman western Europe in a...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 232 p. Edward I’s conquest of Wales was a key formative event in the history of Britain, but it has not been the subject of a scholarly book for over 100 years. Research has advanced since then, changing our perception of the medieval military mind and shining fresh light on the key characters involved in the conquest. That is why Sean Davies’s...
University of Wales Press, 2015. — 310 p. Originally published as Welsh Military Institutions , this book, newly available in paperback, traces the development of the Welsh state in the years after the Roman empire. Sean Davies uses an array of sources to counter the dominant perception of the medieval Welsh - driven by Gerald of Wales’s account - as a race of noble savages; the...
Brepols, 2011. — 229 p. — (Burgundica 18). Dans la veine de la 'nouvelle histoire militaire', cette âetude consacrâee áa l'artillerie 'bourguignonne', de la guerre menâee par Philippe le Bon contre les Gantois (1451-1453) áa la mort de Charles le Hardi devant Nancy (5 janvier 1477), vise áa cerner l'organisation d'un instrument militaire alors en plein essor, engendrant...
Routledge, 2010. — 534 p. War was epidemic in the late Middle Ages. It affected every land and all peoples from Scotland and Scandinavia in the north to the southern Mediterranean Sea coastlines of Morocco, North Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East in the south, from Ireland and Spain in the west to Russia and Turkey in the east. Nowhere was peaceful for any significant amount...
Routledge, 2010. — 534 p. War was epidemic in the late Middle Ages. It affected every land and all peoples from Scotland and Scandinavia in the north to the southern Mediterranean Sea coastlines of Morocco, North Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East in the south, from Ireland and Spain in the west to Russia and Turkey in the east. Nowhere was peaceful for any significant amount...
University of Toronto Press, 2012. — 384 p. First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses,...
Metro Books, 2006. — 232 p. Introduces 20 key medieval Battles from Europe and the Near East in an age when traditional codes of chivalry gave way to increasing professionalism. These battles include Hastings, Hattin, Leignitz, Lake Peipus, Bannockburn, Crecy, Agincourt, Constantinople, and many more. The book includes exciting, full-color tactical maps for each battle, showing...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 392 p. Medieval Warfare: A Reader examines how armed conflict was experienced in the Middle Ages both on the field of battle and at home. This comprehensive collection of more than 130 primary-source materials - some translated here for the first time - traces over one thousand years of military developments, including the fall of Rome, the...
Brill, 2002. — 1132 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 8). There is perhaps no other more lively area for study in medieval history than medieval military history, with its attendant and complementary field, the history of medieval military technology. In the past twenty years, it seems that more major scholarly inroads have been made in this field than in any other historical...
Brill, 2008. — 504 p. — (History of Warfare, 46). This is the second update of A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, which appeared in 2002. It is meant to do two things: to present references to works on medieval military history and technology not included in the first two volumes; and to present references to all books and articles published...
Boydell Press, 1996. — 224 p. This study departs from the conventional view of the dominance of cavalry in medieval warfare: its objective is to establish the often decisive importance of infantry. Kelly DeVries employs evidence from first-hand accounts - a major feature of this study - to examine the role of the infantry, and the nature of infantry tactics, in nineteen battles...
Boydell Press, 1996. — 224 p. This study departs from the conventional view of the dominance of cavalry in medieval warfare: its objective is to establish the often decisive importance of infantry. Kelly DeVries employs evidence from first-hand accounts - a major feature of this study - to examine the role of the infantry, and the nature of infantry tactics, in nineteen battles...
Orient Monographs, 1971. — 99 p. The Delhi Sultanate was an Islamic empire based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent for 320 years (1206–1526). Five dynasties ruled over the Delhi Sultanate sequentially: the Mamluk/Slave dynasty (1206–1290), the Khalji dynasty (1290–1320), the Tughlaq dynasty (1320–1414), the Sayyid dynasty (1414–1451), and the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 176 p. In the early 5th century, Germanic Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossed the North Sea in increasing numbers and began settling among the ruins of the former Roman province of Britannia. This led to centuries of warfare as these 'Anglo-Saxons' carved new, independent kingdoms at the point of the sword, fighting the native Britons and each...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 176 p. In the early 5th century, Germanic Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossed the North Sea in increasing numbers and began settling among the ruins of the former Roman province of Britannia. This led to centuries of warfare as these 'Anglo-Saxons' carved new, independent kingdoms at the point of the sword, fighting the native Britons and each...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 208 p. The centuries that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476 saw the formation of numerous Romano-Germanic kingdoms from the fusion between different Germanic communities and the Roman population. In time the Frankish Kingdom came to dominate over all the others and conquered most of continental Europe under the guidance of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 208 p. The centuries that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476 saw the formation of numerous Romano-Germanic kingdoms from the fusion between different Germanic communities and the Roman population. In time the Frankish Kingdom came to dominate over all the others and conquered most of continental Europe under the guidance of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 184 p. The ascent of the Plantagenets to the English throne in 1154 led to the beginning of a new historical phase in the British Isles, which was marked by numerous wars that were fought between the Kingdom of England and the 'Celtic nations' of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. During the rule of the Norman kings, the English armies had not...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 184 p. The ascent of the Plantagenets to the English throne in 1154 led to the beginning of a new historical phase in the British Isles, which was marked by numerous wars that were fought between the Kingdom of England and the 'Celtic nations' of Wales, Scotland and Ireland. During the rule of the Norman kings, the English armies had not...
Pen and Sword Military, 2025. — 208 p. The Hundred Years' War examines its famous battles, key figures, and the evolution of warfare, tactics, and equipment. The Hundred Years' War is one of the most famous conflicts in British history, featuring such renowned battles as Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt. It is a period littered with such legendary names as the Black Prince, Henry...
Pen and Sword Military, 2025. — 232 p. Examines the history, organization, and military prowess of nomadic Eurasian steppe peoples, from the Huns to the Mongols. Gabriele Esposito presents an overview of the history, organization and equipment of the military forces deployed by the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppes during the period from the appearance of the Huns in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2025. — 232 p. Examines the history, organization, and military prowess of nomadic Eurasian steppe peoples, from the Huns to the Mongols. Gabriele Esposito presents an overview of the history, organization and equipment of the military forces deployed by the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppes during the period from the appearance of the Huns in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 176 p. Viking warriors were feared by their contemporaries and their ferocious reputation has survived down to the present day. This book covers the military history of the Vikings from their early raiding to the final failure of their expansionist ambitions directed against England. In that period Viking warbands and increasingly large armies...
Pen & Sword Books, 2012. — 202 p. From the 12th to 15th centuries the longbow was the weapon that changed European history more than any other. In the skilled hands of English and Welsh archers it revolutionized all the medieval concepts and traditions of war. No other weapon dominated the battlefield as it did, and it was the winning factor in every major battle from Morlaix in...
Routledge, 2018. — 352 p. War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1600 is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula including the kingdoms of Leon and Castile, Aragon, Portugal, Navarra, al-Andalus and Granada. It offers an extensive chronology, covering the entire medieval period and extending through to the sixteenth century, allowing for a very broad perspective of Iberian...
Einaudi, 1999. — 304 p. Il termine "cavalleria" suggerisce anzitutto un'immagine, quella del nobile eroe che, spada in pugno, corre in soccorso dei più deboli. Nella realtà dei fatti, la cavalleria fu una vera e propria istituzione con uno spiccato carattere aristocratico e militare, soggetta dal IX al XIII secolo a profonde modificazioni. Flori le segue passo passo,...
ARC Humanities Press, 2020. — 140 p. This book presents, for the first time in English, an overview of the decisive Battle of Aljubarrota (1385), the most important military moment in Portuguese history. The authors embody the conflict in the context of Iberian relations during the fourteenth century, and integrate the battle in the macro European conflict of the Hundred Years...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 332 p. Pietro Monte's Collectanea is a wide-ranging treatise on the arts of knighthood, focusing on martial arts, athletics, arms and armour, and military practice, but touching on subjects as diverse as diet, zoology and the design of life preservers. Monte, a courtier, soldier and scholar who won the respect of men like Leonardo da Vinci and Baldesar...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 332 p. Pietro Monte's Collectanea is a wide-ranging treatise on the arts of knighthood, focusing on martial arts, athletics, arms and armour, and military practice, but touching on subjects as diverse as diet, zoology and the design of life preservers. Monte, a courtier, soldier and scholar who won the respect of men like Leonardo da Vinci and Baldesar...
London: Routledge, 2006. — 670 p. The study of medieval warfare has developed enormously in recent years. The figure of the armoured mounted knight, who was believed to have materialized in Carolingian times, long dominated all discussion of the subject. It is now understood that the knight emerged over a long period of time and that he was never alone on the field of conflict....
ARC Humanities Press, 2021. — 264 p. The purpose of this book is to provide an overarching analysis of the French military in the medieval period. Inevitably this will involve some definition of 'French', which has meant different things at different times. The focus will be on the armies of the French monarchy and the lands close around them, extending from the Low Countries...
Routledge, 2023. — 245 p. This volume brings together a series of articles by John France, published over a span of more than forty years, covering a number of aspects of the military and crusading history of the Middle Ages, both in Europe and the Near East. An interest in understanding how war worked and why informs a first group of articles, ranging from Carolingian armies...
Routledge, 2023. — 245 p. This volume brings together a series of articles by John France, published over a span of more than forty years, covering a number of aspects of the military and crusading history of the Middle Ages, both in Europe and the Near East. An interest in understanding how war worked and why informs a first group of articles, ranging from Carolingian armies...
Routledge, 2023. — 245 p. This volume brings together a series of articles by John France, published over a span of more than forty years, covering a number of aspects of the military and crusading history of the Middle Ages, both in Europe and the Near East. An interest in understanding how war worked and why informs a first group of articles, ranging from Carolingian armies...
Newton Compton Editori, 2012. — 512 p. Sotto la definizione di Medioevo rientra un intero millennio, nel corso del quale le armi, le tecniche, le strategie militari subirono profondi cambiamenti. Altrettanto estesa è la varietà dei fronti, dalla penisola iberica al Medio Oriente, passando attraverso l'Italia, i territori anglofrancesi e l'Europa orientale. La guerra medievale,...
Longanesi, 1985. — 225 p. È uno dei più grandi condottieri di quell'« età di ferro », caratterizzata da azioni gagliarde e infami atrocità, che vede all'opera tanti capitani di ventura a lui simili, il più delle volte ardimentosi, sovente ambigui, sempre avidi e ambiziosi. Anche Bartolomeo Colleoni fu ardimentoso, ma anche ambiguo, certamente ambizioso e avido. Ebbe però la...
Routledge, 2016. — 446 p. Drawn from seven languages this collection of translated texts addresses the crusades against the Hussite heretics of Bohemia (from 1420). The crusade provides an intimate portrait of the later crusades period which was really a struggle for religious freedom. From the Council of Constance to war. The first crusade: Prague, 1420. The second crusade:...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 368 p. Sieges played a key role in the crusades, but they tend to be overshadowed by the famous battles fought between the Franks and the Muslims, and no detailed study of the subject has been published in recent times. So Michael Fulton’s graphic, wide-ranging and thought-provoking book is a landmark in the field. He considers the history of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 368 p. Sieges played a key role in the crusades, but they tend to be overshadowed by the famous battles fought between the Franks and the Muslims, and no detailed study of the subject has been published in recent times. So Michael Fulton’s graphic, wide-ranging and thought-provoking book is a landmark in the field. He considers the history of...
Drengo, 2008. — 182 p. Il volume curato da Angelo Gambella affronta la Guerra nel Medioevo: concetto, battaglie, personaggi, cavalleria, centri fortificati, attraverso i contributi di 5 studiosi. Il terzo volume della collana Studi storici sul Medioevo Italiano edita da Drengo in collaborazione con l'Associazione Medioevo Italiano Project, comprende testi di Renzo Paternoster,...
Warszawa: MON, 1959. — 308 s. Pomimo upływu półwiecza Polską sztukę wojenną w okresie wczesnofeudalnym należy nadal czytać i z niej korzystać, gdyż – powtarzając opinię sprzed półwiecza – jest w dalszym ciągu pozycją „cenną, która na stałe zajmie należne jej, poważne miejsce w dziejach badań nad historią naszej wojskowości”. I to od niej każdy szanujący się badacz historii...
Watts Publishing, 2004. — 40 p. Warfare and Weapons explores the development of weapons and methods of warfare during the medieval period. It describes changes in arms and armor, from the simple mail coat to full plate armor, as well as the use of longbows, crossbows, cannons, and pikes. It also discusses the role of infantry and cavalry in the battles and sieges of the period.
Francis Cairns, 1998. — 314 p. The first modern account of the conflict between the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the Sasanian kingdom. Greatrex traces the background to the war, investigating relations between Rome and Persia, the state of Roman defences in the East, and the chaotic situation in Persia at the end of the 5th century. He then examines the sources and the...
Robert Hale Ltd., 2018. — 228 p. Warfare, Raiding and Defence in early medieval Britain is an examination of warfare in the period AD400-850, often called the Dark Ages, which is roughly the period between the end of Roman rule and the arrival of large Viking armies. It uses written sources, archaeological evidence and surviving features in the landscape to analyse the nature...
Robert Hale Ltd., 2018. — 228 p. Warfare, Raiding and Defence in early medieval Britain is an examination of warfare in the period AD400-850, often called the Dark Ages, which is roughly the period between the end of Roman rule and the arrival of large Viking armies. It uses written sources, archaeological evidence and surviving features in the landscape to analyse the nature...
Il Mulino, 2018. — 372 p. Le guerre medievali sono spesso rappresentate come scontri fra cavalieri, di norma risolti tramite eroiche singolar tenzoni. In realtà, come ai giorni nostri, anche a quell’epoca, mettere in campo e approvvigionare un esercito era un’operazione complessa, che coinvolgeva truppe a cavallo e appiedate, tiratori e artiglierie, genieri e salmerie. Le...
Salerno, 2015. — 132 p. La battaglia di Benevento del 1266 è comunemente presentata come una sorta di malvagio scherzo del destino ai danni di Manfredi, il figlio dell'imperatore Federico II, che venne sconfitto dalle forze di Carlo d'Angiò, al quale riuscì in tal modo di impadronirsi del Regno di Sicilia. A partire dalla narrazione "guelfa" degli eventi, che spiegava la...
Laterza, 2012. — 261 p. Miti, leggende e fantasie letterarie hanno costruito l'immaginario della battaglia di Legnano che ha segnato la storia d'Italia e dell'intera Europa. I fatti però andarono diversamente. 29 maggio 1176: nelle campagne a nord-ovest di Milano, l'imperatore Federico Barbarossa affronta l'esercito delle città italiane raccolte nella Lega Lombarda con un esito...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 235 p. For over 200 years following its capture by Edward III in 1347 the town of Calais was in English hands; after 1453 it remained the last English possession on the continent, a commercial, cultural, diplomatic and military frontier until its recapture by the French in 1558. This is the first book-length study of the Calais garrison, the largest...
Berlin; Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 520 p. — (Ergänzungsbände Zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 115). Karolingische politische Ordnung ist, anders als das Reich der Ottonen, in der Forschung durchaus als hoch entwickelt erkannt worden. Dabei scheut sich die Forschung aus verschiedenen Gründen, das Karolingerreich als staatliche Ordnung zu betrachten, auch...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. — 302 p. — (History of Warfare 36). Logistics is a central concern for military strategists, but the study of logistics in the past entails far more than merely military aspects. The study of resources and their production, distribution and consumption in pre-modern societies, of road-networks and communications, and of transportation, is an...
Routledge, 2016. — 349 p. Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S. Bachrach for the study of warfare as not only worthy of scholarly attention, but demanding of it. In his many publications Bachrach has established unequivocally the relevance of military institutions and activity for an understanding of medieval European societies, polities, and...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. — 320 p. Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technology—and challenging past assumptions...
Boydell Press, 2004. — 240 p. This is a study of autobiographical writings of Renaissance soldiers. It outlines the ways in which they reflect Renaissance cultural, political and historical consciousness, with a particular focus on conceptions of war, history, selfhood and identity. A vivid picture of Renaissance military life and military mentality emerges, which sheds light...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 288 p. The medieval mounted knight was a fearsome weapon of war, captivating and horrifying in equal measure, they are a continuing source of fascination. They have been both held up as a paragon of chivalry, whilst often being condemned as oppressive and violent. Occupying a unique place in history, knights on their warhorses are an enigma hidden...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. For the first time, Sophie Harwood uses the Old French tradition as a lens through which to examine women and warfare from the 12th to the 14th centuries. The result is a skilled analysis of gender roles in the medieval era, and a heightened awareness of how important literary texts are to our understanding of the historical period in which...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. For the first time, Sophie Harwood uses the Old French tradition as a lens through which to examine women and warfare from the 12th to the 14th centuries. The result is a skilled analysis of gender roles in the medieval era, and a heightened awareness of how important literary texts are to our understanding of the historical period in which...
Bretwalda Books, 2012. — 28 p. The sweeping victory of the Welsh at Cardigan (Crug Mawr) was historic. It not only put the victor, Owain Gwynedd in a position to rule Wales free of English domination, it also marked the arrival on the battlefields of Europe of a new, deadly and uniquely Welsh weapon. The longbow had arrived. A Welsh revolt against Norman rule had begun in south...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 224 p. In the time of the great Anglo-Saxon kings like Alfred and Athelstan, Æthelred and Edmund Ironside, what was warfare really like – how were the armies organized, how and why did they fight, how were the warriors armed and trained, and what was the Anglo-Saxon experience of war? As Paul Hill demonstrates in this compelling new study, documentary...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 208 p. In the spring of 878 at the Battle of Edington the tide of English history turned. Alfred's decisive defeat of Guthrum the Dane freed much of the south and west of England from Danish control and brought to a halt Guthrum's assault on Alfred's Wessex. The battle was the culmination of a long period of preparation by Alfred in the wilderness - a...
New York: Skyhorse publishing, 2009. — 182 p. List of Plates. Introduction: Siegecraft: The Basis of Medieval Warfare. Fortified Towns and Cities. Strong Points in a Landscape. Castles and Fortifications: Designers, Builders and Developments. Machines of War. Fire Hazard. Artillery. Attack and Defense. Logistics. War Games, Psychology and Morale. Women at War. Rules of...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2009. — 239 p. Here Geoffrey Hindley serves us the history of military sieges from every angle, tracing the development of fortifications and equipment (offensive and defensive), penning vivid portraits of the weapons involved, exploring the psychology of laying siege, and even describing the role played by women and camp followers in battle. He shows siege...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. — 134 p. Medieval warfare is the European warfare of the Middle Ages. Technological, cultural, and social developments had forced a severe transformation in the character of warfare from antiquity, changing military tactics and the role of chivalric cavalry and artillery. In terms of fortification, the Middle Ages saw the emergence of the castle in...
I.B. Tauris, 1999. — 259 p. This is the first biography of the Albanian national hero Scanderbeg (1403-1468), published in England for more than four hundred years. The son of a prince of Albania, he was educated in the Muslim faith as a hostage at the court of Sultan Murad II. The sultan showered favors on him and gave him the title bey and an army command. In 1443, when the...
Fragment, 1995. — 66 p. — (Homo militaris -2) Edicia Homo militaris zoznamuje citatelov s historiou vojenstva od staroveku az po 19. storocie. Druhy diel sestzvazkovej edicie je venovany stredovekemu vojenstvu. Cele takmer tisicrocne dejiny Europy boli poznamenane stovkami vojnovych konfliktov. Islo o dynasticke spory, rozsirovanie drzav na ukor slabsich susedov, ale aj o...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p. Detailed comparison of the conduct of military affairs by the Black Prince and the French King Jean II. What were the essential qualities for a military commander during the Hundred Years War? How important were strategic vision, tactical skill and powers of leadership in medieval warfare? These are the questions that Peter Hoskins...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p. Detailed comparison of the conduct of military affairs by the Black Prince and the French King Jean II. What were the essential qualities for a military commander during the Hundred Years War? How important were strategic vision, tactical skill and powers of leadership in medieval warfare? These are the questions that Peter Hoskins...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p. Detailed comparison of the conduct of military affairs by the Black Prince and the French King Jean II. What were the essential qualities for a military commander during the Hundred Years War? How important were strategic vision, tactical skill and powers of leadership in medieval warfare? These are the questions that Peter Hoskins...
Routledge, 2024. — 250 p. This Handbook provides the first comprehensive and global analysis of medieval military strategy, covering the period from the sixth to the seventeenth century. Challenging the widely held notion in modern strategic studies that medieval strategy was non-existent, the Handbook brings together leading scholars to explore a range of literatures,...
Routledge, 2024. — 250 p. This Handbook provides the first comprehensive and global analysis of medieval military strategy, covering the period from the sixth to the seventeenth century. Challenging the widely held notion in modern strategic studies that medieval strategy was non-existent, the Handbook brings together leading scholars to explore a range of literatures,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 480 p. The last and longest war of classical antiquity was fought in the early seventh century. It was ideologically charged and fought along the full length of the Persian-Roman frontier, drawing in all the available resources and great powers of the steppe world. The conflict raged on an unprecedented scale, and its end brought the classical...
Da Capo Press, 1996. — 204 p. Previous works on the medieval cavalry arm have generally been confined to the battle record of the Western heavy cavalry. This new book examines the entire world of the medieval warhorse, how the animals were bred, trained and doctored, as well as their use in combat.Mounted warriors of all classes are covered, both in Europe and among the Persians,...
The History Press, 2012. — 160 p. Full details on the battle that marked the end of the reign of Richard III and the rise of the Tudor dynasty. Bosworth Field saw the two great dynasties of the day clash on the battlefield: the reigning House of York, led by Richard III, against the rising House of Tudor, led Henry Tudor, soon to become Henry VII. On August 22, 1485, this...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 254 p. — (The Early Medieval North Atlantic). The Battle of Errozabal (Rencesvals) is the one of the most significant historical events of eighth century Vasconia and in all Western Europe. The present monograph examines Charlemagne’s campaign from the perspective of military history but also as part of a complex socio-political process that...
Berlin: Zeughaus Verlag bei Berliner Zinnfiguren Hans-Günther Scholtz, 2008. — 59 S. — (Heere & Waffen). Was geschah wirklich bei Tannenberg am 15. Juli 1410? Zum Ablauf dieser zu den größten Schlachten des europäischen Mittelalters zählenden Auseinandersetzung im heutigen Polen finden sich in der Geschichte widersprüchliche Darstellungen. Der Band beschäftigt sich intensiv mit...
Bretwalda Battles, 2014. — 50 p. A book about the historic Battle of Bannockburn, the great triumph by Robert Bruce of Edward II of England that won independence for Scotland. The book is being released to mark the 700th anniversary of the battle and to coincide with the Scottish referendum on independence. With most of Scotland in his hands, Robert Bruce looked set to become...
Bretwalda Books, 2014. — 50 p. A book about the bloody Battle of Brighton, one of the lesser known battles of the medieval Hundred Years War between England and France. In 1377 a powerful French fleet landed an army on the beach at Brighton - then a small fishing village known as Brighthelmstone. The village went up in flames and the French stormed inland to loot, plunder,...
I.B.Tauris, 2007. — 256 p. The reign of Henry VIII saw a renascent militarism encapture England. Memories of great victories over the French remained fresh and resplendent in the psyche and pageantry of early-Tudor England, and the pursuit of glory on the battlefield and of due recognition of England as a major player in European power politics were the identifying features of...
Schwabe, 2016. — 181 p. Ce livre reunit des contributions interdisciplinaires autour des pratiques d'experimentation dans les recherches sur les arts martiaux historiques europeens et sur la culture materielle liee a l'armement a la fin du Moyen Age. Les differents articles proposent des reflexions methodologiques autour de cette approche originale, illustrees par des etudes de...
Leiden - Boston: Brill Academic Pub., 2016. — 619 p. — (History of Warfare 112). Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbucher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe. The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for...
Boydell and Brewer, 1999. — 202 p. Different aspects of medieval warfare form the focus for this collection of essays by both established and new scholars. They range from a reconsideration of several problems of military historiography to explorations of the medieval view of divine influence on the battlefield, and the emergence of complex strategic and tactical norms of naval...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 340 p. Written by 12 scholars, this richly illustrated volume illuminates the medieval period, examining over 700 years of European conflict from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the Middle Ages (1500). 100 illustrations. The medieval period was a singular epoch in military history-an age profoundly influenced by martial ideals, whose very...
Routledge, 2001. — 252 p. The Armies of the Caliphs is the first major study of the relationship between army and society in the early Islamic period, and reveals the pivotal role of the military in politics. Through a thorough examination of recruitment, payment, weaponry and fortifications in the armies, The Armies of the Caliphs offers the most comprehensive view to date of...
Harvard University Press, 1974. — 401 p. Introduction: Varieties of the Chinese Military Experience.. Phases and Modes of Combat in Early China The Campaigns of Han Wu-ti. Regional Defense Against the Central Power: The Huai-hsi Campaign, 815–817. Siege and Defense of Towns in Medieval China. The Poyang Campaign, 1363: Inland Naval Warfare in the Founding of the Ming Dynasty....
Dorset Press, 1988. — 264 p. Medieval Warfare includes hundreds of full colour illustrations and technical drawings showing the armor, equipment and uniforms of medieval archers, cavalry men and infantrymen, and 15 maps of medieval Europe and famous battles which changed it. It's authoritative 100,000 word text written by H. W. Koch, with special contribution by Ian V. Hogg and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 288 p. The Byzantine empire was one of the most powerful forces in the Mediterranean and Near East for over a thousand years. Strong military organization, in particular widespread fortifications, was essential for its defence. Yet this aspect of its history is often neglected, and no detailed overview has been published for over thirty years....
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 288 p. The Byzantine empire was one of the most powerful forces in the Mediterranean and Near East for over a thousand years. Strong military organization, in particular widespread fortifications, was essential for its defence. Yet this aspect of its history is often neglected, and no detailed overview has been published for over thirty years....
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 288 p. The Byzantine empire was one of the most powerful forces in the Mediterranean and Near East for over a thousand years. Strong military organization, in particular widespread fortifications, was essential for its defence. Yet this aspect of its history is often neglected, and no detailed overview has been published for over thirty years....
Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Morskie, 1978. — 484 s. Książka ta jest pracą popularnonaukową, przeznaczoną dla szerokiego kręgu Czytelników interesujących się problematyką morską, zwłaszcza zaś przeszłością Bałtyku. Przedstawione zostały wojny na morzu od pierwszej historycznie znanej bitwy morskiej pod Svoldern w 1000 r. do wydarzeń rewolucyjnych 1905—1906.
O'Brien Press, 2013. — 256 p. The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country's history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colorful personalities and sharp political twists and turns, Strongbow's story is a fascinating one. Combining the writing style of an award-winning novelist with expert...
Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1987. — 685 p. Wielka Wojna 1409-1411 – wojna pomiędzy Królestwem Polskim, Wielkim Księstwem Litewskim, wspieranymi lennikami obu tych krajów (Hospodarstwo Mołdawskie, Księstwo Mazowieckie, Księstwo płockie, Księstwo bełskie, Podole) oraz najemnikami z Królestwa Czech, uciekinierami ze Złotej Ordy i chorągwiami prywatnymi (między...
Boydell & Brewer, 2011. — 260 p. During the fourteenth century England was scarred by famine, plague and warfare. Through such disasters, however, emerged great feats of human endurance. Not only did the English population recover from starvation and disease but thousands of the kingdom's subjects went on to defeat the Scots and the French in several notable battles. Victories...
Brill, 1996. — 424 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 9). This volume focusses on the interplay between war and society in the Eastern Mediterranean, in a period which witnessed the Arab conquests, the Seljuk invasion, the Crusades, and the Mongol incursions. The military aspects of these momentous events have not been fully discussed so far. For the first time this book offers a...
Routledge, 2017. — 418 p. — (Asian States and Empires 9). As East Asia regains its historical position as a world centre, information on the history of regional relations becomes ever more critical. Astonishingly, Northeast Asia enjoyed five centuries of international peace from 1400 to 1894, broken only by one major international war – the invasion of Korea in the 1590s by...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 297 p. Shakespeare’s Henry IV lamented ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown’. It was true of that king’s reign and of many others before and after. From Hereward the Wake’s guerilla war, resisting the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror, through the Anarchy, the murder of Thomas Becket, the rebellions of Henry II’s sons, the deposition...
Casemate, 2021. — 256 p. We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armor smashing each other with their maces and poleaxes for hours on end, as depicted on film and in programs such as Game of Thrones? They could not have done so. It is impossible to fight in such a manner for more than several minutes as exhaustion becomes a preventative...
Casemate, 2021. — 256 p. We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armor smashing each other with their maces and poleaxes for hours on end, as depicted on film and in programs such as Game of Thrones? They could not have done so. It is impossible to fight in such a manner for more than several minutes as exhaustion becomes a preventative...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 320 p. Agincourt is one of the most famous battles in English history, a defining part of the national myth. This groundbreaking study by Mike Livingston, author of Never Greater Slaughter, presents a new interpretation of Henry V's great victory. 'It's quite a feat to write an account of England's most famous battle that makes the reader feel like...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 224 p. — (Osprey General Military). Late in CE 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side stood a remarkable alliance of rival kings - at least two from across the sea - who'd come together to destroy them once and for all. The stakes were no less...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 224 p. — (Osprey General Military). Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side stood a remarkable alliance of rival kings - at least two from across the sea - who'd come together to destroy them once and for all. The stakes were no less...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 224 p. — (Osprey General Military). Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the expanding kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons. On the other side stood a remarkable alliance of rival kings - at least two from across the sea - who'd come together to destroy them once and for all. The stakes were no less...
O'Brien Press, 2014. — 256 p. Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, is often dismissed as a mythical figure, as all the known facts about him are contained within the several Irish annals. However thirty years of research have led Morgan Llyweyln to conclude with certainty that Brian Boru actually lived, a great battle took place in 1014, and Ireland won. Read about the life of...
Foreword: William Caferro — Pen & Sword Military, 2009. — 284 p. Originally published in 1974. Michael Mallett's classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who fought under them is set in the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2009. — 284 p. Michael Mallett's classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who fought under them is set in the wider context of the Italian society of the time and of...
John Donald, 2011. — 176 p. Galloglas were mercenary warriors from the Hebrides and West Highlands who settled in Ireland in the later thirteenth century and achieved an extraordinary prominence on Irish battlefields throughout the following three hundred years. Fighting as heavy infantry - highly disciplined, mail-armoured and wielding their characteristic weapon of the...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 344 p. The Edwardian castles of north Wales were built by a Savoyard master mason, but also by many other artisans from Savoy. What is more extraordinary, is that the constables of Flint, Rhuddlan, Conwy and Harlech were also Savoyards, the Justiciar and Deputy Justiciar at Caernarfon were Savoyards and the head of the English army leading the...
Firebird Books, 1988. — 208 p. This volume tells in exciting and authentic detail the story of four great warlords from the early medieval period. They waged their wars, first with the barbarian tribes of Europe and later with the might of Islam in bitter struggles in Spain and for the Holy Land, to establish the political and military dominance of Christianity throughout...
Bretwalda Books, 2013. — 50 p. A book dedicated to the Battle of Chesterfield that ended the Baronial Wars of King Henry III against Simon de Montfort. After Simon de Montfort’s death at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, his supporters rallied in Derbyshire. Sending messages to other reformers to rally to their cause the rebels were expecting help from the King of France, but it...
Bretwalda Books, 2013. — 65 p. A book dedicated to the Battle of Lincoln that marked a turning point in the Wars of Anarchy during the reign of King Stephen. A civil war between King Stephen and his rival Empress Matilda broke out in 1136. By 1141 England had fallen in to anarchy with nobles using the unrest to pursue local feuds, slaughter rivals and pillage each other’s land....
Pen and Sword, 2016. — 214 p. During the thirteenth century, Mongol armies under Chinggis Khan and his successors established the largest contiguous land empire in history, stretching across Asia and into eastern Europe. Contemporary descriptions of their conquests have led to a popular misconception that the Mongols were an undisciplined horde of terrifying horsemen who swept...
New edition — Phoenix, 2014. — 320 p. Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would consider war crimes. Lands laid waste, civilians slaughtered, prisoners massacred: this was standard fare justified by tradition and practical military necessity. It was unbelievably barbaric, but...
Arc Humanities Press, 2021. — 240 p. This collection assembles work by some of the foremost English-speaking scholars of pre-modern thought and culture and is the fruit of the Australian Research Council's ground-breaking Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion. The impact of war, a human activity that is both public and politically charged, is examined as it affects...
Arc Humanities Press, 2021. — 240 p. This collection assembles work by some of the foremost English-speaking scholars of pre-modern thought and culture and is the fruit of the Australian Research Council's ground-breaking Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion. The impact of war, a human activity that is both public and politically charged, is examined as it affects...
ARC Humanities Press, 2021. — 236 p. This collection assembles work by some of the foremost English-speaking scholars of pre-modern thought and culture and is the fruit of the Australian Research Council's ground-breaking Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotion. The impact of war, a human activity that is both public and politically charged, is examined as it affects...
Routledge, 2021. — 255 p. The twentieth century was dominated by war and by preparations for war in a way that is unparalleled in history. Originally published in 1988, this textbook highlights key themes of warfare throughout the world and emphasizes the gulf between the theory of war and its practice. The contributors are professional historians and strategists who consider...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 352 p. — (Armour and Weapons 10). Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of the battlefield or the silken panoply of the tournament, weapons and...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 352 p. — (Armour and Weapons 10). Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of the battlefield or the silken panoply of the tournament, weapons and...
Boydell Press, 2023. — 266 p. — (Armour and Weapons 13). Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of the battlefield or the silken panoply of the tournament, weapons and...
Boydell Press, 2024. — 218 p. — (Armour and Weapons 14). Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. Medieval arms and armour are intrinsically fascinating. From the smoke and noise of the armourer's forge to the bloody violence of the battlefield or the silken panoply of the tournament, weapons and...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 258 p. In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to participate in raids, sieges and battles, for the defense of home and hearth. Because these men are regarded as amateurs, military historiography has paid little attention to their efforts. This...
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2021. — 140 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 140) El fallecimiento de Alfonso XI de Castilla, víctima de la de peste durante el asedio de Gibraltar en 1350, abrió una crisis sucesoria. Pedro I, primogénito de Alfonso, tuvo que enfrentarse a su hermanastro Enrique, que reclamaba el trono. La nobleza se dividió, apoyando a uno u otro y los reinos vecinos de...
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2023. — 103 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 149) La villa y fortaleza de Antequera, estratégicamente situada en el acceso a la vega de Granada, era una posición vital para cl control del emirato nazarí, último reino musulmán en la península Ibérica y objetivo final dentro de la fase definitiva del proceso de Reconquista. La plaza había sufrido tres...
Second Edition. — Center for Romanian Studies, 2018. — 252 p. The fifteenth century marked a decisive moment in world history as the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into southeastern Europe posed a grave threat to Christianity, highlighted by the fall of Byzantium to the Turks in 1453, drawing the attention of the Papacy and of all the states of Christian Europe. Amidst this...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 162 p. In AD 1071, the Byzantine Emperor, Romanos IV Diogenes, set out from Constantinople for the eastern borders of his Empire with an army described as “more numerous than the sands of the sea”. His military campaign culminated in defeat by the Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan at the Battle of Mantzikert. This defeat was to have profound consequences for both...
Laterza, 2020. — 272 p. Luogo d'incontri e contaminazioni, nel basso Medioevo il Mediterraneo fu, anche e soprattutto, un luogo di aspri scontri. Genova e Venezia - così come Pisa o la corona catalano-aragonese - si resero protagoniste d'una lotta senza quartiere, ricorrendo a ogni mezzo, lecito o illecito, per assicurarsi il controllo delle principali rotte di trasporto. Sin...
Reference Point Press, 2014. — 80 p. Warfare in medieval Europe most often centered on capturing castles, and sieges of those fortresses, as well as fortified towns, became long and highly elaborate affairs featuring a wide array of weapons and techniques. Though they occurred less often, pitched battles in which thousands of foot soldiers and mounted warriors clashed were...
Lucent Books / Thomson Gale, 2003. — 112 p. — (History of Weapons and Warfare). The colorful, chaotic, and deadly warfare of the medieval era comes to life in this information-packed volume. Armored knights, massed archers armed with crossbows and longbows, sieges of castles using scaling adders and catapults, phalanxes of pikemen, early cannons and hand-held guns - all are...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 280 p. Battles have long featured prominently in historical consciousness, as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or when aspects of collective identity were shaped. But how have perspectives on warfare changed? How similar are present day ideologies of warfare to those of the medieval period? Looking back over a thousand...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 280 p. Battles have long featured prominently in historical consciousness, as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or when aspects of collective identity were shaped. But how have perspectives on warfare changed? How similar are present day ideologies of warfare to those of the medieval period? Looking back over a thousand...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 253 p. Helen Nicholson offers a masterly synthesis and summary of the present state of knowledge and debates on various aspects of warfare in medieval Catholic Europe between AD 300 and 1500. Nicholson provides a general overview of the subject, with greater detail on topics of particular interest. Individual chapters consider the theory of warfare,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 256 p. This is not just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century and a bit which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish warriors was invited by the Christian Byzantine Emperor to cross the Dardanelles from Asia...
Arms & Armour Press, 1996. — 328 p. This is the first part of a two-volume work that divides its coverage of warfare between the fifth and fourteenth centuries into those seen in internal Europe and those campaigns waged by European nations beyond their bonndaries and wars in other continents. The author supplements his informative text with illustrations and line drawings,...
Routledge, 2002. — 340 p. The technological relationship between the three main civilizations of the Western world - Byzantium, the Islamic world and the West - most particularly in the area of arms, armour and military technology is a field of research for which Dr Nicolle is noted. This volume deals principally with Western Europe and Byzantium, which for many centuries...
Routledge, 2002. — 340 p. The technological relationship between the three main civilizations of the Western world - Byzantium, the Islamic world and the West - most particularly in the area of arms, armour and military technology is a field of research for which Dr Nicolle is noted. This volume deals principally with Western Europe and Byzantium, which for many centuries...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 288 p. Medieval Soldier outlines the development of the undisciplined barbarian war bands of the Dark Ages into the feudal armies of the early Middle Ages. It deals with the arms and equipment of the soldier, not only from surviving specimens but also from descriptions in contemporary medieval documents. Vesey Norman covers the slow development...
Bellona, 2012. — 256 p. Bitwa pod Chojnicami odbyła się 18 września 1454 roku. Brały w niej udział wojska polskie przeciwko wojskom zakonu krzyżackiego. Bitwa, zakończona zwycięstwem strony krzyżackiej, była epizodem wojny trzynastoletniej. Nocą z 16 na 17 września Dunin założył obóz obronny pod wsią Świecino. Otoczony przez Krzyżaków mógł liczyć tylko na doświadczenie swoich...
Cornell University Press, 1968. — 164 p. This history of medieval warfare remains for students and general readers one of the best accounts of military art in the Middle Ages between Adrianople in 378 A.D. (the most fearful defeat suffered by a Roman army since Cannae in 216 B.C.) and Marignano (1515 A.D.), the last of the triumphs of the medieval horseman. It was extensively...
Routledge, 2018. — 554 p. First published in 1898, this history of medieval warfare, written by one of the great medievalists of his time, Sir Charles Oman, remains for students and general readers one of the best accounts of military art in the Middle Ages. The book begins with the significant battle of Adrianople in 378 C.E. (the most fearful defeat suffered by a Roman army...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 352 p. The Long War for Britannia is unique. It recounts some two centuries of 'lost' British history, while providing decisive proof that the early records for this period are the very opposite of 'fake news'. The book shows that the discrepancies in dates claimed by many scholars are illusory. Every early source originally recorded the same...
Brill, 2018. — 504 p. — (The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage 63). In From Nicopolis to Mohács, Tamás Pálosfalvi offers an account of Ottoman-Hungarian warfare from its start in the late fourteenth century to the battle of Mohács in 1526. During this period of one century and a half, the Kingdom of Hungary was the most constant and strongest rival of the expanding Ottoman Empire...
Brill, 2024. — 552 p. — (History of Warfare 146). The story of the battle of Mohács and of King Louis II's dramatic escape, only to meet his end by falling from his horse and drowning in the stream of Csele, is well-known. These traumatic events have been seen as symbolizing the fall of the independent Hungarian Kingdom and the dawn of an age of oppression. This volume presents...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 192 p. The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed kingdoms of medieval Europe. But perhaps the impact of the conflict has been overstated, and its effect on the common people across the...
Pen & Sword Military, 2018. — 182 p. The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed kingdoms of medieval Europe. But perhaps the impact of the conflict has been overstated, and its effect on the common people across the country...
New York: B. Blackwell, 1984. - 387 p. Covering the ten centuries following the fall of Rome, War in the Middle Ages engages all aspects of its subject, including the military customs and conditions of the various Western European states; armor and weaponry recruitment; and rules of combat developed to limit bloodshed. Philippe Contamine writes with an awareness that, in both...
Warszawa: Bellona, 1999. — 374 s. Książka Contaminea nie zmienia powszechnych wyobrażeń na temat wojny w średniowieczu, ale je uzupetnia. Mamy zatem niepowtarzalną szansę poznania średniowiecznej wojny "od środka", nie tylko z punktu widzenia wodzów czy bohaterów, ale także prostych żołnierzy. Książka ta jest więc nieodzownym rozwinięciem "Atlasu sztuki wojennej w...
London: British Library, 2018. - 127 p. The glamour associated with knights in shining armor, colorful tournaments, and heroic deeds appeal strongly to the modern imagination. However, few pieces of military dress and equipment have survived, so for a comprehensive view of the nature of medieval warfare we rely on written documentation and the information preserved in...
Pen and Sword History, 2020. — 320 p. The Mighty Warrior Kings traces the history of early Europe through the biographies of nine kings, who had the courage, determination and martial might to establish their dominance over the fragmented remnants of the Roman Empire. The book begins with Charlemagne, who united large regions of current-day France, Germany and Italy into the...
Yale University Press, 1996. — 405 p. While medieval military life is sometimes pictured in terms of knights in armour with splendid coats of arms, the reality more often consisted of men struggling against cold and damp and against elusive foes who refused to do battle. In this book, Michael Prestwich re-creates the experience of medieval warfare, examining how English...
Nowtilus, 2017. — 320 p. Conozca la caballería medieval con sus grandes aventuras, intrigas, batallas, sus armas y personajes más famosos, así como la heráldica, las cruzadas, torneos y combates míticos. La historia de unos guerreros con un código de honor propio desde su formación y su investidura hasta su fin con la aparición del arco, la pica y la pólvora. La obra cubrirá...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 352 p. The results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork emplacements and underground mines used for war have left little trace behind them; and there is even less of the engineers themselves: the people behind the military...
Boydell Press, 2018. — 352 p. The results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork emplacements and underground mines used for war have left little trace behind them; and there is even less of the engineers themselves: the people behind the...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 568 p. Medieval warfare was dominated by the attack and defence of fortified places, and siege methods and technology developed alongside improvements in defences. This book uses both original historical sources and evidence from archaeology to analyse this relationship as part of a comprehensive view of the whole subject, tracing links across three...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 241 p. Before the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It is not restricted only to well-covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all regions of Europe, including the Empire, the Baltic, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, and considers developments...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 240 p. Before the Military Revolution examines European Warfare in the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1490. It is not restricted only to well-covered conflicts, like the Anglo-Scottish Wars or the Hundred Years War, but gives due weight to all regions of Europe, including the Empire, the Baltic, the Balkans and the Mediterranean, and considers developments...
Bellona, 2002. — 276 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). In the Battle of Cedynia or Zehden, an army of Mieszko I of Poland defeated forces of Hodo or Odo I of Lusatia on 24 June 972, near the Oder river. Whether or not the battle actually took place near the modern-day town of Cedynia. Mieszko I, Poland's first documented ruler based in Greater Poland, had successfully campaigned in the...
Bellona, 2004. — 268 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Siege of Niemcza (Polish: Obrona Niemczy) took place during three weeks in August 1017, in the last phase of the German–Polish War (1002–1018), when the forces of the Emperor Henry II besieged the town of Niemcza controlled by the Polish ruler Bolesław I the Brave. Despite the aid of Bohemian and Lutici allies, the Imperial attack...
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2025. — 267 p. — (Variorum Collected Studies CS1125). This volume explores the topics of military revolutions, strategy, and tactics both separately and as they relate to each other. It makes important contributions to understanding European warfare in the Early, High, and especially the Late Middle Ages, as well the military...
Greenwood, 2007. — 336 p. The most dangerous arms in the world are those of horse and lance, because there is no means of stopping them, wrote a 15th-century commander, Jean de Bueil. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the 15th century, the men (and a few women in disguise) who reported for military service or who led other men, scouted and skirmished, plundered...
Greenwood Press, 2007. — 331 p. The most dangerous arms in the world are those of horse and lance, because there is no means of stopping them, wrote a 15th-century commander, Jean de Bueil. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the 15th century, the men (and a few women in disguise) who reported for military service or who led other men, scouted and skirmished,...
Clarendon Press, 1993. — 301 p. This is a carefully researched and illuminating study of siege warfare in the twelfth century. The siege was an integral part of medieval military experience, and was particularly significant in the Mediterranean region. Rogers explores siege warfare and the role it played in the First Crusade and the establishment of the Crusader States, in...
Transcript Verlag, 2017. — 272 p. What bodily experiences did fighters make through their lifetime and especially in violent conflicts? How were the bodies of fighters trained, nourished, and prepared for combat? How did they respond to wounds, torture, and the ubiquitous risk of death? The articles present examples of body techniques of fighters and their perception throughout...
Routledge, 2016. — 468 p. — (The International Library of Essays on Military History). First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing. This collection of essays and articles from a wide range of journals is intended to make more accessible to students and scholars some of the most important writing in English in this field from the 1950s to the present day. The volume draws...
Routledge, 2016. — 468 p. — (The International Library of Essays on Military History). First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing. This collection of essays and articles from a wide range of journals is intended to make more accessible to students and scholars some of the most important writing in English in this field from the 1950s to the present day. The volume draws...
The History Press, 2011. — 256 p. Through centuries of war in Europe, the English medieval archer was the most powerful force on the battlefield. Based on the study of medieval writings and period artefacts, this is a comprehensive examination of the archer and his weapon in a time when archery was both economically and militarily vital to the security of England. The author is...
Pen and Sword, 2008. — 256 p. The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 was one of the decisive battles of British history. The bitter hostility between England and Scotland which had continued since 1296, the contrasting characters of the opposing commanders Edward II and Robert the Bruce, the strategy of the campaign and the tactics of the battle itself - all these elements combine...
Routledge, 2006. — 634 p. Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603. It looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition from medieval to renaissance warfare, the development of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 255 p. On 21 July 1403 Sir Henry Percy – better known as Hotspur – led a rebel army out at Shrewsbury to face the forces of the king Henry IV. The battle was both bloody and decisive. Hotspur was shot down by an arrow and killed. Posthumously he was declared a traitor and his lands forfeited to the crown. This was an ignominious end to the...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 192 p. For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history. Yet this critical episode receives far less attention than the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars...
Pen and Sword, 2009. — 192 p. For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history. Yet this critical episode receives far less attention than the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars...
Lira, 2022. — 287 p. Bitwa pod Cedynią to pierwsze poświadczone w źródłach starcie polsko-niemieckie. Stoczona 24 czerwca 972 roku do dziś jeszcze wzbudza silne emocje i wywołuje spory wśród historyków. Zakończyła się ona triumfem armii piastowskiej dowodzonej przez księcia Mieszka I. Jakie okoliczności towarzyszyły wybuchowi wojny polsko-niemieckiej? Dlaczego margrabia łużycki...
UTET, 2015. — 246 p. Pavia, 24 febbraio 1525. Nell’arco di poco più di una notte, si consuma una battaglia che segna una svolta fondamentale nel conflitto tra Francia e Sacro Romano Impero, determinando il passaggio del Nord Italia sotto l’influenza spagnola. Protagoniste di questo scontro epocale sono “le armi del diavolo”: archibugi e moschetti la cui efficacia, al tempo, era...
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2016. — 289 p. The Ottoman conquest of the Balkans constitutes a major change in European history. Scholarship on the topic is extensive, yet the evidence produced by decades of research is very scattered and lacking comprehensive synthesis, not to mention consensual interpretation. Although major political and military milestones seem to...
The History Press, 2013. — 152 p. On a day in August, 1,000 years ago, a fleet of some 90 viking ships sailed into the estuary of the Blackwater river in Essex. Fresh from the ravage of Ipswich, under the command (almost certainly) of the king of Denmark, they were intent no doubt on the rich spoils to be had from the royal Mint at Maldon. Facing them on the shore was...
Il Mulino, 2020. — 359 p. "Uscimmo contro di loro nel luogo detto Sant'Ansano a Dòfana, con la nostra potentissima cavalleria, nella cui probità per esperienza confidiamo. Qui, esaminato diligentemente il rischio del momento con il consiglio degli esperti, ordinammo a battaglia con somma cura le schiere dei nostri. Mentre i nemici si avvicinavano spiegammo le bandiere di...
Laterza, 2015. — 357 p. Pochi periodi storici hanno avuto un rapporto così quotidiano con la guerra come il Medioevo. Guerra di saccheggio, in cui distruggere e depredare il nemico era in cima ai pensieri di ogni soldato. Aldo Angelo Settia conduce il lettore sui campi di battaglia e ricostruisce la mentalità del soldato medioevale, la sua vita fatta di privazioni, di fame, di...
Vertical, 2007. — 240 p. For over a century after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Empire enjoyed an almost unbroken series of victories in Eastern Europe and throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. In 1571, the Republic of Venice and Pope Pius V worked together to assemble an alliance of European powers to confront the Ottoman navy in the Aegean and Mediterranean...
Vertical, 2007. — 240 p. The Roman Empire did not meet its end when barbarians sacked the City of Seven Hills, but rather a thousand years later with the fall of Constantinople, capital of the surviving Eastern Empire. The Ottoman Turks who conquered the city aslo known to us as Byzantium would force a tense centruy of conflict in the Mediterranean culminating in the famous...
Vertical, 2007. — 240 p. By the early sixteenth century, Rhodes, the "Isle of Blossoming Roses", had become a thorne in the Ottoman Empire's side. Located only eleven miles from the coast of Asia Minor, the island was controlled by the Order of the Knights of St. John (later known as the Knights of Malta), former crusaders who by then had two specialties: tending to ailing...
Vertical, 2007. — 240 p. By the early sixteenth century, Rhodes, the "Isle of Blossoming Roses", had become a thorne in the Ottoman Empire's side. Located only eleven miles from the coast of Asia Minor, the island was controlled by the Order of the Knights of St. John (later known as the Knights of Malta), former crusaders who by then had two specialties: tending to ailing...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. — 510 p. In War on the Eve of Nations: Conflicts and Militaries in Eastern Europe, 1450-1500 , Vladimir Shirogorov examines how Eastern European armed forces produced critical geopolitical changes in the region. Analyzing the interactions between changes in warfare and the nation-building process, Shirogorov focuses on developments regarding the...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. — 510 p. In War on the Eve of Nations: Conflicts and Militaries in Eastern Europe, 1450-1500 , Vladimir Shirogorov examines how Eastern European armed forces produced critical geopolitical changes in the region. Analyzing the interactions between changes in warfare and the nation-building process, Shirogorov focuses on developments regarding the...
Brill, 2021. — 340 p. — (History of Warfare 135). Most medieval historians have explained the ‘civil wars’ in Scandinavia in the 12th and 13th centuries as internal conflicts within a predominantly national and implicitly state-centered politico-constitutional framework. This book argues that the conflicts during this period should be viewed as less disruptive, less internal...
Desperta Ferro Ediciones, 2019. — 674 p. “Edad oscura” es el nombre que tradicionalmente se ha venido dando al periodo comprendido entre el siglo V y el VIII de nuestra era, entre las grandes invasiones germánicas y la eclosión del Imperio carolingio, un tiempo que supuso la transformación definitiva del mundo antiguo y el alumbramiento del Medievo. Y aunque las nuevas...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 308 p. One of the most important technological developments of the Middle Ages was the adoption of gunpowder weapons in medieval Europe. From the fourteenth century onwards, this new technology was to eventually transform the conduct of warfare beyond all recognition with important implications for European and global history. Guns came to be used in all...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2015. — 368 p. Following the fall of Rome, the sea is increasingly the stage upon which the human struggle of western civilization is played out. In a world of few roads and great disorder, the sea is the medium on which power is projected and wealth sought. Yet this confused period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied – it is little...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2015. — 368 p. Following the fall of Rome, the sea is increasingly the stage upon which the human struggle of western civilization is played out. In a world of few roads and great disorder, the sea is the medium on which power is projected and wealth sought. Yet this confused period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied – it is little...
Boydell & Brewer, 2019. — 346 p. — (Warfare in History 47). Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French forces of Charles of Anjou accosted a young Sicilian noblewoman. It sparked a bloody conflagration, the so-called War of the Sicilian Vespers, that would ultimately involve every...
Boydell & Brewer, 2019. — 346 p. — (Warfare in History 47). Just before Vespers on 30 March 1282 at the Church of the Holy Spirit on the outskirts of Palermo, a drunken soldier of the occupying French forces of Charles of Anjou accosted a young Sicilian noblewoman. It sparked a bloody conflagration, the so-called War of the Sicilian Vespers, that would ultimately involve every...
Arc Humanities Press, 2023. — 264 p. This book uses sociological perspectives to bring together work on war and identity in the Middle Ages relating to a range of peoples and geographical settings from Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia. Focusing on the interrelation between ideological practices and group formation, it examines the role of warfare in...
Dumbarton Oaks, 2000. — 198 p. The “Parangelmata Poliorcetica” and the “Geodesia,” two Greek treatises on the construction of devices for siege warfare, are products of 10th-century Byzantium. The texts are presented here in critical editions based, for the first time, on the archetype manuscript “Vaticanus graecus 1605” and accompanied by an English translation and commentary....
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 432 p. The Military History of Late Rome 565-602 provides a fresh analysis of the Roman Empire from the reign of Phocas (602-10) until the death of Heraclius (610-41). This was an era of unprecedented upheavals which is usually considered to have resulted in the end of antiquity. The usurpations of Phocas and Heraclius led to the collapse of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 432 p. The Military History of Late Rome 565-602 provides a fresh analysis of the Roman Empire from the reign of Phocas (602-10) until the death of Heraclius (610-41). This was an era of unprecedented upheavals which is usually considered to have resulted in the end of antiquity. The usurpations of Phocas and Heraclius led to the collapse of the...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 276 p. — (Warfare in History, Vol. 47). The kingdom of Sicily plays a huge part in the history of the Norman people; their conquest brought in a new era of invasion, interaction and integration in the Mediterranean, However, much previous scholarship has tended to concentrate on their activities in England and the Holy Land. This volume aims to redress...
Arc Humanities Press, 2024. — 134 p. Byzantium survived for eight centuries, yet the dominions and power of the beleaguered Byzantine empire fluctuated dramatically during that time. This book provides a detailed analysis of the military organization of this thousand-year empire, its strategies and battle tactics, diplomacy and geo-politics, military equipment and siege...
Crowood Press, 2019. — 240 p. Warfare has been central to European history for millennia. Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. Its fundamental aim is to stimulate the reader's interest in the importance of pitched battles in war, and to explain the geo-political gravity...
Crowood Press, 2019. — 240 p. Warfare has been central to European history for millennia. Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. Its fundamental aim is to stimulate the reader's interest in the importance of pitched battles in war, and to explain the geo-political gravity...
Independent Publishers, 2020. — 97 p. The battles of the late Middle Ages were particularly bloody. The number of people who took part in them could reach several thousand, and military tactics and the best weapons turned them into a real massacre. In the book "Victories and Battles of the Late Middle Age" you will get acquainted with the greatest battles and conquests of the...
Boydell Press, 2022. — 292 p. Deception and trickery are a universal feature of warfare, from the Trojan horse to the inflatable tanks of the Second World War. The wars of the Central Middle Ages (c. 1000-1320) were no exception. This book looks at the various tricks reported in medieval chronicles, from the Normans feigning flight at the battle of Hastings (1066) to draw the...
Boydell & Brewer, 2022. — 292 p. First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare. Deception and trickery are a universal feature of warfare, from the Trojan horse to the inflatable tanks of the Second World War. The wars of the Central Middle Ages (c. 1000-1320) were no exception. This book looks at the various tricks reported in medieval...
The History Press, 2012. — 160 p. The battle in which the destruction of the shield wall changed Western Europe forever. In 1066, a foreign invader won the throne of England in a single battle and changed not only the history of the British Isles but of Christendom forever. Harold Godwinson’s army, exhausted from their victory against an invading Norwegian Viking army at the...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 96 p. — (Essential Histories). The history of the Mongol conquests is a catalogue of superlatives. No army in the world has ever conquered so much territory, and few armies have provoked such terror as the Mongol hordes. So vast was the extent of the Mongol Empire that the samurai of Japan and the Teutonic Knights of Prussia had each fought the same...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 208 p. — (Osprey guide to...) The Ottoman Empire and its conflicts provide one of the longest continuous narratives in military history. Its rulers were never overthrown by a foreign power and no usurper succeeded in taking the throne. At its height under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Empire became the most powerful state in the world - a...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 208 p. The Ottoman Empire and its conflicts provide one of the longest continuous narratives in military history. Its rulers were never overthrown by a foreign power and no usurper succeeded in taking the throne. At its height under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Empire became the most powerful state in the world - a multi-national,...
Greenhill Books, 2024. — 224 p. The history of the Teutonic Knights is one of crusading in an era of wars, intrigues, assassinations and betrayals. Originally established as a hospital order during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land in the late 12th century, the order evolved into a formidable military force dedicated to defending and expanding Christianity in the Baltic...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 256 p. The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of providing the skilled and disciplined warriors necessary to keep the enemy at bay. It was the...
Frontline Books, 2015. — 256 p. The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of providing the skilled and disciplined warriors necessary to keep the enemy at bay. It was the...
Frontline Books, 2015. — 256 p. The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of providing the skilled and disciplined warriors necessary to keep the enemy at bay. It was the...
Brill, 2020. — 284 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 128). In Medieval Fortifications in Cilicia Dweezil Vandekerckhove offers an account of the origins, development and spatial distribution of fortified sites in the Armenian Kingdom (1198-1375). Despite the abundance of archaeological remains, the Armenian heritage had previously not been closely studied. However, through the...
PUF, 2023. — 276 p. En raison de la violence extrême dont il est capable, l'homme de guerre incarne l'une des grandes peurs de la société de la fin du Moyen Âge. Au sortir de la guerre de Cent Ans, dans l'Angleterre, la France et les principautés bourguignonnes du xve siècle, il devient urgent pour les pouvoirs publics de réformer les armées et d'encadrer l'usage légitime de la...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 288 p. Medieval Soldier outlines the development of the undisciplined barbarian war bands of the Dark Ages into the feudal armies of the early Middle Ages. It deals with the arms and equipment of the soldier, not only from surviving specimens but also from descriptions in contemporary medieval documents. Vesey Norman covers the slow development...
The History Press Ltd, 2012. — 224 p.
How was it that ordinary men in medieval England and Wales became such skilled archers that they defeated noble knights in battle after battle? The archer in medieval England became a forerunner of John Bull as a symbol of the spirit of the ordinary Englishman. He had his own popular literature that left us a romantic version of the lives...
Brill, 2005. — 242 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 31). The development treated in this volume of a variety of staff weapons in the Medieval and Renaissance periods in Europe is of importance, as the repeated success of their use caused substantive political changes. Their typology, use, and smithing techniques as well as correlations with contemporary artistic renditions, are...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 214 p. Today the castle is only too often a romantic ruin; but in the Middle Ages it was an important military and administrative centre, essentially utilitarian in its design and in the purposes it served. Inevitably, the castle played a leading role in mediaeval history. Using the wealth of material available Philip Warner has focused his study on...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 214 p. Today the castle is only too often a romantic ruin; but in the Middle Ages it was an important military and administrative centre, essentially utilitarian in its design and in the purposes it served. Inevitably, the castle played a leading role in mediaeval history. Using the wealth of material available Philip Warner has focused his study on...
Brill Academic Pub, 2024. — 469 p. — (Reading Medieval Sources 8). What do the mysterious Roman author Vegetius, the Byzantine emperor Leo VI, and the Chinese general Li Jing all have in common? They are three of the dozens of authors across the medieval Mediterranean world and beyond who wrote works of military literature, sometimes called military handbooks, manuals, or...
Bellona, 2003. — 209 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Bannockburn on 23 and 24 June 1314 was a victory of the army of King of Scots Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II of England in the First War of Scottish Independence. Though it did not bring overall victory in the war, which would go on for 14 more years, it was a landmark in Scottish history. King Edward...
Frontline Books, 2023. — 255 p. In popular imagination the warfare of the Early Middle Ages is often obscure, unstructured, and unimaginative, lost between two military machines, the ‘Romans’ and the ‘Normans’, which saw the country invaded and partitioned. In point of fact, we have a considerable amount of information at our fingertips and the picture that should emerge is one...
Countryside Books, 2018. — 96 p. Decaying animals catapulted over battlements, flaming arrows raining from the sky and red-hot sand poured down ladders to repel advancing bloodthirsty hordes. Castle warfare was a grim and grisly business, and every aspect of it is brought to life in this book. Through colorful illustrations and accounts of actual sieges in every chapter, you'll...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995. — 401 p. The Sasanian army was the primary military body of the Sasanian armed forces, serving alongside the Sasanian navy. The birth of the army dates back to the rise of Ardashir I (r. 224–241), the founder of the Sasanian Empire, to the throne. Ardashir aimed at the revival of the Persian Empire, and to further this aim, he reformed the military by...
Translated by László Kőrössy. — Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. — 296 p. In 1566, Croatian Count Miklós Zrínyi defended the Fortress of Szigetvár against an overwhelming Ottoman siege for 33 days. In the end, with troops and supplies exhausted, he led the remainder of his men in a last charge into the enemy lines, killing thousands before...
Наш современник, 2010. — 140 с.
Эта работа посвящена 600-летнему юбилею Грюнвальдской битвы 15 июля 1410 года – великому сражению Средневековья, на века определившему судьбы многих народов Европы.
Издание рассказывает о причинах войн в истории человечества, о воинах и армиях Александра Македонского, Ганнибала, Юлия Цезаря – знаменитых предшественников великолепного...
Наш современник, 2010. — 140 с.
Эта работа посвящена 600-летнему юбилею Грюнвальдской битвы 15 июля 1410 года – великому сражению Средневековья, на века определившим судьбы многих народов Европы.
Издание рассказывает о причинах войн в истории человечества, о воинах и армиях Александра Македонского, Ганнибала, Юлия Цезаря – знаменитых предшественников великолепного рыцарского...
К.: Наш час, 2010. — 64 с.: іл. — (Українська мілітарна історія). — ISBN 978-966-1530-23-1.
Науково-популярний проект "Українська мілітарна історія" знайомить читача з воєнними кампаніями, що розгорталися на території сучасної України від найдавнішиї часів до XX ст., арміями, озброєнням, фортифікаційними спорудами. Проект складається із серій "Стратегікон" і "Плац д'Арм",...
СПб.: Общественная польза, 1876. — 328 с. Свой капитальный труд «Всеобщая военная история» князь Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в 1838-47 годах в период профессорско-преподавательской работы в Императорской военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и затем — военной истории. На протяжении двадцати лет со времени учреждения академии не существовало учебного пособия на...
СПб.: Общественная польза, 1876. — 328 с. Свой капитальный труд «Всеобщая военная история» князь Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в 1838-47 годах в период профессорско-преподавательской работы в Императорской военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и затем — военной истории. На протяжении двадцати лет со времени учреждения академии не существовало учебного пособия на...
СПб.: Общественная польза, 1878. — 827 с. Впервые издана в Петербурге в 1872-1878 гг. Свой капитальный труд «Всеобщая военная история» в 15 томах князь Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в 1838-47 годах в период профессорско-преподавательской работы в Императорской военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и затем — военной истории. На протяжении двадцати лет со...
СПб.: Общественная польза, 1878. — 827 с. Впервые издана в Петербурге в 1872-1878 гг. Свой капитальный труд «Всеобщая военная история» в 15 томах князь Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в 1838-47 годах в период профессорско-преподавательской работы в Императорской военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и затем — военной истории. На протяжении двадцати лет со...
Монография. — В 3-х частях. — М.: Академический проект, 2019. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2023-8. Части первая и вторая. От падения Западной Римской империи до введения огнестрельного оружия (476–1350 гг.). В Европе и в Азии. — М.: Академический проект, 2019. — 349 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2310-9. Свой капитальный труд "Всеобщая военная история" Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в период...
Монография. — В 3-х частях. — М.: Академический проект, 2019. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2023-8. Часть третья. От введения огнестрельного оружия до Тридцатилетней войны (1350–1618 гг.). В Западной Европе и в Азии. — М.: Академический проект, 2019. — 311 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2311-6. Свой капитальный труд "Всеобщая военная история" Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в период...
М: Эксмо, 2007. — 204 c.
Книга содержит всестороннее описание 20 битв, произошедших в Европе и на Ближнем Востоке в период с 1000 по 1500 г. Среди них — полевые сражения с участием масс кавалерии и пехоты, осады и штурмы городов и крепостей, морские сражения. Авторы подробно освещают геополитическую ситуацию и причины, приведшие к столкновению, а также сам ход сражения и его...
ИМЦ, 2022. — 207 с. Монография посвящена исследованию политических взаимоотношений Османской империи с христианскими странами Средиземноморья в XVI веке. Внимание уделяется ключевым событиям, спровоцировавшим возникновение Святой Лиги христианских государств против османов. Книга ориентирована на специалистов, занимающихся вопросами внешней политики. Будет полезна в учебном...
М.: ИМЦ, 2022. — 207 с. — ISBN 978-5-907445-69-7 Монография посвящена исследованию политических взаимоотношений Османской империи с христианскими странами Средиземноморья в XVI веке. Внимание уделяется ключевым событиям, спровоцировавшим возникновение Святой Лиги христианских государств против османов. Книга ориентирована на специалистов, занимающихся вопросами внешней...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1991. В монографии исследуются военное искусство, комплекс боевых средств, структура военной организации тюркоязычных и монголоязычных кочевников Средней Азии в конце I — первой половине II тысячелетия н. э. Анализируется широкий круг вещественных, изобразительных и письменных источников по военному делу номадов. Исследуются причины и механизмы появления...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1991. В монографии исследуются военное искусство, комплекс боевых средств, структура военной организации тюркоязычных и монголоязычных кочевников Средней Азии в конце I — первой половине II тысячелетия н. э. Анализируется широкий круг вещественных, изобразительных и письменных источников по военному делу номадов. Исследуются причины и механизмы появления...
СПб: Петербургское Востоковедение; М.: Филоматис, 2003. — 192 с. — (Militaria Antiqua I). — ISBN: 5-85803-238-9; 5-98111-009-0. В книге рассматривается полная драматизма военная история кыргызов — кочевого народа тюркского происхождения, который обитал в средние века на просторах Южной Сибири и Центральной Азии. Автор в доступной и увлекательной форме рассказывает о войнах...
СПб: Петербургское Востоковедение; М.: Филоматис, 2003. — 192 с. — (Militaria Antiqua I). — ISBN: 5-85803-238-9; 5-98111-009-0. В книге рассматривается полная драматизма военная история кыргызов — кочевого народа тюркского происхождения, который обитал в средние века на просторах Южной Сибири и Центральной Азии. Автор в доступной и увлекательной форме рассказывает о войнах...
М.: Вече, 2004. — 448 с. — ISBN: 5-94538-313-9. Настоящий том научного-популярного издания «Все войны мира», написанный известным военным историком А.В.Шишовым, посвящен Средним векам. Данная эпоха невероятно богата военно-политическими событиями, потрясавшими все страны и континенты. Крестовые походы западноевропейских рыцарей против мусульман Ближнего Востока, ужасающие...
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