Art Of Warfare In Western Europe During The Middle Ages; Author: Verbruggen, J. F.; Paperback

Author: Verbruggen, J. F.
2nd p/bk ed; Paperback; 12 B&w Illustrations, 6 Maps
412 pages
Published: April 1998
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0851155707
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Warfare is one of the central themes of medieval history, but until recently its technical details and organization have not been properly investigated. Professor Verbruggen's masterly workapplies rigorous standards to the analyses of the often very obscure surviving evidence, and comes up with conclusions which are very different from those of earlier generations of military historians.He begins by analyzing the sources for our knowledge of the military history of the period, and assessing their reliability, going on to look at the constituent parts of the medieval army. He then turns to the way in which it was used, the vexed question of medieval tactics, which is explored by analyzing accounts of a series of major battles. This leads on to the problems of strategy: whether'Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages From the Eighth Century to 1340'. Is the first English paperback edition of a classic work on medieval warfare. 'Art of Warfare in Western Europe During the Middle Ages From the Eighth Century to 13A translation and revision of a work first published in Dutch in 1954 which provides an examination of medieval warfare in Western Europe. It begins with an assessment of the reliability of sources for our knowledge of the military history, and then offers detailed study of a wide range of topics.