From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism
determined the nature of European warfare. "Medieval Warfare"
begins in the time of Charlemagne, who maintained a military system
of freemen and of vassals bound to him in service for lands granted
in fief. These pages are crowded with recreations of famous events
like the Battle of Hastings and movements like the Crusades; with
the brightest flowers of knighthood, and with the mercenary
grandeur of Byzantium.
Hans Delbruck shows how feudal military organization varied in
different countries and why the knightly forces could not hold up
against the barbarous Normans. He studies military developments in
the kingdoms that rose with the collapse of the Carolingian Empire,
as well as the trend toward mercenary armies. When the Swiss
peasants, forming the first true infantry, defeated the Burgundian
knights in the fourteenth century, the era of modern warfare had
begun.
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