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,...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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 & 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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, 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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
М: Эксмо, 2007. — 204 c.
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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...
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