The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology

Author: Clifford J. Rogers

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 1798

ISBN-13: 0195334035

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This set is an excellent companion to J. R. Strayer's edited Dictionary of the Middle Ages (CH, Nov'87; Supplement I, ed. by W. C. Jordan, CH, Sep'04, 42-0044). The focus on warfare allows the editors to offer larger entries on major topics (e.g., "Agincourt," "Crusades," "Feudalism") and introduce many complementary topics. The editors are concerned with Europe; they expand coverage into Asia or Africa only because of the connection to medieval Europe. Coverage also includes an abundance of entries pertaining to Central and Eastern Europe. Most of the 1,000-plus entries are about a page in length, but a few approach 50 pages. Medium and large-size entries, such as "Chivalry," "Germany," and "Slavic Lands," discuss primary sources and very valuable historiographies. A thorough index helps readers locate the Knights Templar under "Orders, Military, Levantine Orders." Cross-references and bibliographies follow each of the signed entries. Locating reliable and scholarly information on the Knights Templar and Vlad Tepes (Dracula) is tricky. Some of the bibliographies include sources in foreign languages. For example, the references for the Black Army of Hungary are in Hungarian. Noticeably missing are entries for the many wars. This set is particularly suited to research libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by W. M. Fontane.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: East Central Europe : narrative (500-1000)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: East Central Europe : narrative (500-1000)

Author: Clifford J. Rogers

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9780195334036

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This three-volume encyclopedia examines all aspects of warfare and military technology in medieval times. It provides an exhaustive and accurate view of how and why wars were waged throughout Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States from circa 500 CE to circa 1500. --from publisher description.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: East Central Europe : narrative (500-1000)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: East Central Europe : narrative (500-1000)

Author: Clifford J. Rogers

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9780195334036

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This three-volume encyclopedia examines all aspects of warfare and military technology in medieval times. It provides an exhaustive and accurate view of how and why wars were waged throughout Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Crusader States from circa 500 CE to circa 1500. --from publisher description.

Warfare in the Classical World
Warfare in the Classical World

Author: Archimandrite John Warry

Publisher: Batsford Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 184994315X

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This authoritative volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600BC and AD 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilisation to the fall of Ravenna and the eventual decline of the Roman Empire. The book is also, of course, about the great military commanders, such as Alexander and Julius Caesar - men whose feats of generalship still provide material for discussion and admiration in the world's military academies.

Medieval Military Technology
Medieval Military Technology

Author: Kelly Robert DeVries

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1442604972

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This thorough update of a classic book includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses, handguns, incendiary weapons, and siege engines, and new illustrations.

Medieval Warfare : A History
Medieval Warfare : A History

Author: Maurice Keen

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1999-08-26

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0191542520

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This richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.1500). The period covered has a distinctive character in military history. It was an age when organization for war was integral to social structure, when the secular aristocrat was by necessity also a warrior, and whose culture was profoundly influenced by martial ideas. Twelve scholars, experts in their own fields, have contributed to this finely illustrated book. It is divided into two parts. Part I seeks to explore the experience of war viewed chronologically with separate chapters on, for instance, the Viking age, on the wars and expansion of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, on the Crusades and on the great Hundred Years War between England and France. The chapters in Part II trace thematically the principal developments in the art of warfare; in fortification and siege craft; in the role of armoured cavalrymen; in the employment of mercenary forces; the advent of gunpowder artillery; and of new skills in navigation and shipbuilding. In both parts of the book, the overall aim has been to offer the general reader an impression, not just of the where and the when of great confrontations, but above all of the social experience of warfare in the middle ages, and of the impact of its demands on human resources and human endurance.

The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World
The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World

Author: John Peter Oleson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 884

ISBN-13: 0199734852

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Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to engineering and technology. This text highlights the accomplishments of the ancient societies, the research problems, and stimulates further progress in the history of ancient technology.

Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy
Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy

Author: Clifford J. Rogers

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1040099548

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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 transition to the Early Modern Period. Readers will find detailed analysis of how technological and non-technological developments interacted to effect major changes in how wars were fought across the period. The evolution and capabilities of the English longbow and of early gunpowder artillery are examined in depth. Changes in the tools of war naturally affected plans to employ those tools to achieve political ends – military strategy – but strategy was never dictated by technology. That point is illustrated by examinations of English efforts to conquer Wales; the Anglo-Burgundian alliance of the late Hundred Years War; and the economic factors shaping medieval conquests in general. The nine studies in the volume have all been published previously, but a new introduction shows how they fit together, particularly explaining how they collectively rebut common critiques of Rogers’s controversial thesis that European warfare was reshaped by the Infantry and Artillery Revolutions during the era of the Hundred Years War. Two of the chapters have been substantially expanded, so that the versions printed here should be the ones consulted and cited in the future by scholars of medieval warfare and military revolutions.

Medieval Warfare
Medieval Warfare

Author: Everett Uberto Crosby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9780815338499

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Hono sapiens, homo pugnans, and so it has been since the beginning of recorded history. In the Middle Ages, especially, armed conflict and the military life were so much a part of the political and cultural development that a general account of this period is, in large measure, a description of how men went to war.