Bibliographical Essay

P. Contamine, War in the Middle Ages, trans. from French original of 1980 by M. Jones (Oxford: Blackwell, 1984), is the only work on the whole period. P. Southern and K. Dixon, The Late Roman Army (London: Routledge, 1996) summarised work on the Roman army.

The difficult subject of the transition from Rome to the ‘medieval' world pioneered by B. S. Bachrach, Merovingian Military Organization 481-751 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972) has now been illuminated by G. Halsall, Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West, 450-900 (London: Routledge, 2003), showing how the armies of the old empire transformed into ethnic groups. L. I. R. Petersen, Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD) (Leiden: Brill, 2013) suggests that Europe, Byzantium and Islam all inherited Roman traditions, emphasising the links between Roman and Carolingian armies. B. S. Bachrach, Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001) and Charlemagne’s Early Campaigns (768-77) (Leiden: Brill, 2013) on Carolingian warfare argue for large armies and continuity with the Roman world, contrary to G. Halsall and T. Reuter, ‘Plunder and Tribute in the Carolingian Empire', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 35 (1985), 75-94 and ‘The End of Carolingian Military Expansion', in P. Godman and R. Colins (eds.), Charlemagne’s Heir: New Perspectives on the Reign of Louis the Pious (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), pp. 391-405. On Carolingian decline see J. France, ‘The Military History of the Carolingian Period', Revue Belge d’Histoire Militaire 26.2 (1985), 81-100, reprinted in Warfare, Crusade and Conquest in the Middle Ages (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014); and for Germany D. S. Bachrach, Warfare in Tenth Century Germany (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2012). J. France, Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusade 1000-1300 (London: UCL Press, 1999) covers the high medieval period, but perhaps the finest insights come from J.

Gillingham, ‘Richard I and the Science of War in the Middle Ages', in J. Gillingham and J. C. Holt (eds.), War and Government in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1984), pp. 78-91; ‘William the Bastard at War', in C. Harper-Bill, J. Holdsworth and J. Nelson (eds.), Studies in History Presented to R.Allen Brown (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1986), pp. 141-8; ‘War and Chivalry in the History of William the Marshal', in P. Cos and S. Lloyd (eds.), Thirteenth Century England II (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1988), pp. 1-13. R. C. Smail, Crusading Warfare 1097-1193 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956; 2nd edn 1995) is the foundation book for the crusades, but R. Ellenblum, in Frankish Rural Settlement in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Crusader Castles and Modern Histories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), has updated our view of crusader settlement. M. Vale, War and Chivalry: Warfare and Aristocratic Culture in England, France, and Burgundy at the End of the Middle Ages (London: Duckworth, 1981) provides an introduction to late medieval warfare, while C. Rogers, War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2014) discusses new tactics, and specialist aspects are considered by K. DeVries, Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1996) and P. Purton, A History of the Early and Late Medieval Siege, 2 vols. (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2010). On gunpowder B. S. Hall, Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) is vital.

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Source: Gordon Matthew, Kaeuper Richard, Zurndorfer Harriet (eds.). The Cambridge World History of Violence. Volume 2: AD 500-AD 1500. Cambridge University Press,2020. — 696 p.. 2020

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