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A unique collection of materials focused on one of the most
significant battles in European history. The Battle of Hastings is
a unique collection of materials focused on one of the most
significant battles in European history. It includes all the
primary sources for the battle, including pictorial, and seminal
accounts ofthe battle by the major historians of the last two
centuries. Stephen Morillo, in his own important piece, first sets
the scene, describing the political situation in western Europe in
the mid-eleventh century, and the events of1066. He then introduces
the sources, reviewing the perspective of their medieval authors,
and traces the history of writing about the battle. An important
companion to the sources and interpretations is the set of original
maps of the major stages of the battle, from first contact in the
early morning of 14 October 1066 to final pursuit in the late
evening darkness. Sources: WILLIAM OF POITIERS, WILLIAM OF
JUMIEGES, ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE, FLORENCE OF WORCESTER, BAYEUX
TAPESTRY, CARMEN DE HASTINGAE PROELIO Interpretations: RICHARD
ABELS, BERNARD BACHRACH, R. ALLEN BROWN, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, E.A.
FREEMAN, J.F.C. FULLER, JOHN GILLINGHAM, CAROL GILLMOR, RICHARD
GLOVER, CHRISTINE and GERALD GRAINGE, DAVID HUME, STEPHEN MORILLO.
STEPHEN MORILLO teaches history at Wabash College, Indiana; he is
the author of Warfare under the Anglo-Norman Kings and a number of
other studies ofAnglo-Norman warfare.
Latest volume in the leading forum for debate on aspects of
medieval warfare. This sixth volume continues the journal's
tradition of providing a wide range of scholarly studies, covering
topics as diverse as Carolingian war-horse breeding, late-medieval
Spanish methods of war-finance, the interface betweenmilitary
action and politics at the end of the Hundred Years War, and the
tactical methods of Cuman warriors. A key feature of the journal is
its commitment to fostering debate on the most significant issues
in medieval military history, and that tradition too continues with
the new volume, with a study of the relationships between communal
horsemen and footsoldiers in High Medieval Italy having significant
implications for the dispute over the importanceof infantry before
the fourteenth century. There is also an important article by
Richard Abels dealing with the contrasting `cultural determinist'
and `scientific' approaches to understanding the mindset of
medieval warriors, andthe existence (or not) of a `Western Way of
War'. CONTRIBUTORS: RICHARD ABELS, CARROLL GILLMOR, ALDO A. SETTIA,
GREGORY D. BELL, RUSSELL MITCHELL, DONALD J. KAGAY, CHRISTOPHER
ALLMAND.
The studies in this book examine and illuminate the Anglo-Saxon and
Anglo-Norman military institutions that supported and shaped the
conduct of war in northwestern Europe in the central middle ages.
Taken together they challenge received opinion on a number of
issues and force a profound reconsideration of the manner in which
the Normans and their adversaries, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Angevins
and the Welsh, prepared for and waged war.Contributors: RICHARD
ABELS, BERNARD BACHRACH, KELLY DEVRIES, JOHN FRANCE, C.M. GILLMOR,
ROBERT HELMERICHS, NIELS LUND, STEPHEN MORILLO, MICHAEL PRESTWICH,
FREDERICK SUPPE.Contents RICHARD ABELS, From Alfred to Harold II:
The Military Failure of the Late Anglo-Saxon State; BERNARD S.
BACHRACH, William Rufus's Plan for the Invasion of Aquitaine; KELLY
DEVRIES, Harold Godwinson in Wales: Military Legitimacy in Late
Anglo-Saxon England; JOHN FRANCE, The Normans and Crusading; C.M.
GILLMORE, Aimoin's Miracula Sancti Germani and the Viking Raids on
St Denis and St Germain-des-PrA(c)s; ROB HELMERICHS, 'Ad tutandos
patriae fines': The Defense of Normandy, 1135; NILS LUND, Expedicio
in Denmark; STEPHEN MORILLO, Milites, Knights and Samurai: Military
Terminology, Comparative History, and the Problem of Translation;
MICHAEL PRESTWICH, The Garrisoning of English Medieval Castles;
FREDERICK SUPPE, The Persistance of Castle-Guard in the Welsh
Marches and Wales: Suggestions for a Research Agenda and
Methodology.
AEthelwine, Pre-Conquest Sheriff; Alliances of AElfgar of Mercia;
Castle Studies since 1850; Charles the Bald's Fortified Bridges;
Clares and the Crown; Coastal Salt Production; Hydrographic and
Ship Hydrodynamic Aspects of the Invasion; Leland and Historians;
Monks in the World: Gundulf of Rochester; Obtaining Benefices in
12c E. Anglia; St Pancras Priory, Lewes; Slavery; Wace and Warfare.
Essays on aspects of medieval military history, encompassing the
most recent critical approaches. The essays in this volume honour
the career and achievements of Richard Abels, the distinguished
historian of medieval military history; in particular, they aim to
reflect how the "cultural turn" in the field has led to exciting
new developments in scholarship. Ranging from the late eighth
century to the fifteenth, from northern England to the Levant, the
chapters analyze how medieval kings and commanders practiced a
genuine military science, how themeanings of victory and defeat
were constructed by chroniclers and whole societies, how wars were
remembered and propagandized, and how religion and war mixed.
Latest volume of original articles on all aspects of warfare in the
middle ages. Volume III of De Re Militari's annual journal once
again ranges broadly in its chronological and geographic scope,
from John France's article on the evidence which early medieval
Saints' Lives provide concerning warfare toSergio Mantovani's
examination of the letters of an Italian captain at the very end of
the middle ages, and from Spain (Nicolas Agrait's study of
early-fourteenth-century Castilian military structures) to the
eastern Danube (Carroll Gillmor's surprising explanation for one of
Charlemagne's greatest setbacks). Thematic approaches range from
"traditional", though revisionist in content, campaign analyses (of
Sir Thomas Dagworth, by Clifford J. Rogers, and ofMatilda of
Tuscany, by Valerie Eads), to tightly focused studies of a single
document (Kelly DeVries on militia logistics in the fifteenth
century), to controversial, must-read assessments of the broadest
topics in medieval military history (Stephen Morillo and Richard
Abels on change vs. continuity from Roman times; J. F. Verbruggen
on the importance of cavalry.) CONTRIBUTORS: RICHARD ABELS, NICOLAS
AGRAIT, KELLY DEVRIES, VALERIE EADS, JOHNFRANCE, CARROLL GILLMOR,
SERGIO MANTOVANI, STEPHEN MORILLO, CLIFFORD J. ROGERS.
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