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An interwoven study in many ways refreshing and original... A good
book, the first major product of one of the more vital debates in
recent early medieval scholarship. HISTORY A major re-statement of
the nature of Anglo-Norman warfare, with special emphasis on the
role of the familia regis, the King's military household. This
study of the battles waged between 1066 and 1135 by the
Anglo-Norman kings of England - William the Conqueror, William
Rufus and Henry I -is a major restatement of the nature of medieval
warfare in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Bringing together
the two major trends in recent medieval military history, the study
of military organisations and the study of campaigns, Stephen
Morillo illuminates the interrelationship of military organisation
and social and political structures and brings many new perceptions
to bear, such as the central role of the familia regis, the King's
military household. The roles of armies and castles and the normal
activities of warfare are examined to show why sieges were far more
common than pitched battles. Siege and battle tactics are analysed
in the context of social and political influences, administrative
structures and campaign patterns, and a connection is proposed in
most pre-modern warfare between government strength and infantry
quality. Dr STEPHEN MORILLOteaches at Wabash College, Indiana. He
has published numerous articles on Anglo-Norman warfare.
Latest volume in the leading forum for debate on aspects of
medieval warfare. The essays in this latest edition of the Journal,
by leading experts in the field, are a witness to the flourishing
state of the subject, and provide significant contributions to
various important on-going debates and controversies. They include
wide-ranging discussions of state formation and the role of women
in medieval warfare, and an energetic argument against viewing
medieval warfare as cavalry-dominated. A trio of articles dealing
with issuesof bravery and cowardice, though based on Anglo-Saxon
and Anglo-Norman evidence, advance our knowledge of one of the
all-pervasive aspects of the military history of the middle ages.
Similarly, an experimentally-based study of theeffectiveness of
arrows against mail armor reaches conclusions that will cast light
on combat from Visigothic Spain to Crusader Outremer to
fifteenth-century Bohemia. In addition, the Journal includes
in-depth studies of Iberianwar-dogs, the naval battle of Zierikzee
at the start of the fourteenth century, and [reflecting the
editors' broad understanding of the scope of the field] the
war-related activities of Dutch magistrates at the turn of the
sixteenth century. Contributors: STEPHEN MORILLO, BERNARD S.
BACHRACH, RUSS MITCHELL, RICHARD ABELS, STEVEN ISAAC, WILLIAM
SAYERS, JAMES P. WARD, J. F. VERBRUGGEN, ROBERT BURNS
Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and
Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The latest
volume presents recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman,
Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Its ten papers includes articles on the origins of the Cistercian
order, the coronationof Mathilda of Flanders, the rebel Owain ap
Cadwgan, miracle stories and the anarchy of Stephen's reign,
miracles at Sempringham, family and inheritance in the twelfth
century, and contemporary views of secular clergy. Contributors:
CONSTANCE BERMAN, LAURA GATHAGAN, DAVID CROUCH, CLAIRE DE TRAFFORD,
K.L. MAUND, EDMUND KING, RICHARD SHERMAN, HUGH THOMAS, MARYLOU
RUUD, JOHN COTTS, RALPH TURNER.
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.
The latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal, presenting recent
research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin
worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, includes topics
ranging from examinations of the cultures of power and peacemaking
to analyses of patterns of religious patronage, ethnic
stereotyping, law and theology, the Renaissance of the Twelfth
Century, and politics in the Ireland of Lionel of Antwerp.
Contributors: THOMAS N. BISSON, PAUL DALTON, BRIAN GOLDING,
TRACEY-ANNE COOPER, FLORIN CURTA, JASON TALIADOROS, GILBERT STACK,
ALEX NOVIKOFF, PETER CROOKS
Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and
Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The eleventh
volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on
the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the
eleventh and twelfth centuries. Topics include reconsideration of
aspects of Charles Homer Haskins' Renaissance of the Twelfth
Century seventy years after its publication, as well as studies of
the Liber Eliensis, the English coronation ordo, several studies of
ecclesiastical politics, and more. This volume of the Haskins
Society Journal includes papers read at the 16th Annual Conference
of the Charles Homer Haskins Society in Houston in November 1997
and at other conferences in the year following the Haskins.
Contributors include MARCIA COLISH, JENNIFER PAXTON, H.E.J.
COWDREY, GEORGE GARNETT, JOHN FRANCE, PETER BURKHOLDER, BARBARA
YORKE, TOM KEEFE, EMILY ALBU, KARL MORRISON.
Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and
Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The latest
volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on
the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the
eleventh and twelfth centuries, and includes topics ranging from
emotional communities in the middle ages, English identity, and the
artistic construction of sacred space to the organization of royal
estates, Jewish credit operations, the English colonization of
Wales, and more. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal
includes papers read at the 21st Annual Conference of the Charles
Homer Haskins Society at Cornell University in October 2002 as well
as other submissions. Contributors include Barbara Rosenwein, Kate
Rambridge,Nicholas Brooks, Ryan Lavelle, Robin Mundill, Diane
Korngiebel, Ryan Crisp, Philadelphia Ricketts, Louis Hamilton, and
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak.
The 2006 volume of the Haskins Society features another impressive
array of academics addressing the period from Anglo-Saxon to
Angevin. This latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents
recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and
Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries; topics range
from a major reassessment of King Alfred [the last work finished by
Patrick Wormald] and examinations of William the Conqueror, Thomas
Beckett and Sybil of Jerusalem, to questions of legal testimony,
military organization, western geographic knowledge in the middle
ages, and more. Contributors: WILLIAM M. AIRD, NATHANIEL LANE
TAYLOR, DAVID BATES, JOHN D. HOSLER, ROBERT JONES, HELEN J.
NICHOLSON, BERNARD HAMILTON
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.
Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh
and twelfth centuries are presented in this collection. It features
several articles on textual criticism with important revisions to
controversial texts and their readings, as well as pieces on
cultural history, an investigation into monetary history, and
analyses of the legal and political mechanisms of conquest.
Contributors: MARTIN AURELL, NICHOLAS PAUL, ROBERT F. BERKHOFER
III, STEFAN JURASINSKI, JULIE KERR, KIMM STARR-REID, TARA GALE,
JOHN LANGDON, NATALIE LEISHMAN, ALAN M. STAHL, KENNETH PENNINGTON
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