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Aspects of War in the Late Middle Ages

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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.

List of contents

Chapter 1: A Roman text on War. The Strategemata of Frontinus in the Middle Ages. / Chapter 2: The De Re Militari of Vegetius: How did the Middle Ages treat a Late Roman Text on War? / Chapter 3: The Fifteenth – Century English Prose Version of Vegetius’ De Re Militari. / Chapter 4: Did the De Re Militari of Vegetius influence the Military Ordinances of Charles the Bold? / Chapter 5: Changing Perceptions of the Soldier in Late Medieval France. / Chapter 6: Some Intellectual Influences on the Origins of the Royal Army in Medieval France. / Chapter 7: ‘Personal Honour or Common Good? The Witness of Le Jouvencel in the Fifteenth Century.’ / Chapter 8: The Problem of Desertion in France, England and Burgundy in the Late Middle Ages. / Chapter 9: Normandy in English Opinion at the End of the Hundred Years War. / Chapter 10: Diplomacy: The Anglo- French Negotiations, 1439. / Chapter 11: Local Reaction to the French Reconquest of Normandy (1449-50): The Example of Rouen. / Chapter 12: National Reconcilliation in France at the End of the Hundred Years War. / Chapter 13: Spies and Spying in the Fourteenth Century. / Chapter 14: War and the Non-Combatant during the Hundred Years War.

About the author

Christopher Allmand is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Liverpool, UK. His previous publications include Henry V (1968), Lancastrian Normandy 1415-1450, The History of a Medieval Occupation (1983), The Hundred Years War: England and France at War, c.1300-c.1450 (2001), War, Government and Power in Late Medieval France (2000), and The De Re Militari of Vegetius: The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages (2011).

Summary

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.

Product details

Authors Christopher Allmand, Allmand Christopher
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 27.05.2024
 
EAN 9781032227092
ISBN 978-1-0-3222709-2
No. of pages 234
Series Variorum Collected Studies
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries

HISTORY / Military / General, military history

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