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Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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In these articles Professor Bachrach starts by looking at aspects
of the 'barbarian' occupation of the land of the Roman Empire, from
Britain to the Alan settlements in southern Gaul. His particular
interest, however, is in the political and, above all, in the
military structures that grew out of the Early Middle Ages. He has
sought to demonstrate that there was a fundamental continuity in
military organisation and tactics from the Merovingian through the
Carolingian period. As he shows, there is no reason to connect the
origins of 'feudalism' with Charles Martel's wish to create a force
of cavalry, and it is a fallacy that he grasped the potential of
the stirrup for enabling mounted shock combat. On the contrary, its
use in the West progressed only slowly, and it had nothing to do
with the origins or growth of feudalism. Le professeur Bachrach
debute par l'analyse de certains aspects de l'occupation barbare
des terres de l'empire romain, de la Grande-Bretagne aux campements
alans en Gaule meridionale. Il s'attache en suite aux structures
politiques et, surtout, militaires qui furent issues du Haut Moyen
Age. Selon lui, et il tente d'en faire ici la demonstration,
l'organisation et les tactiques militaires ont fait preuve d'une
continuite fondamentale de l'epoque merovingienne A celle des
Carolingiens. Comme il le demontre, il n'y a pas lieu d'etablir de
liens entre l'origine du feodalisme et le desir qu'avait Charles
Martel de creer une cavalerie; il est egalement tout A fait errone
de dire que ce dernier s'etait rendu compte du potentiel de
l'etrier en tant que facteur de mener des combats A cheval de choc.
Bien contraire, l'utilisation de l'etrier A l'Ouest ne fit que
progresser lentement et aucun rapport n'existe entre cet instrument
et l'origine ou la croissance de la feodalite.
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