Soldiers' Lives Through History - The Middle Ages

Soldiers' Lives Through History - The Middle Ages
Title Soldiers' Lives Through History - The Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher Greenwood
Pages 342
Release 2007-04-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Part of the 'Soldiers' Lives Through History' series, this book vividly brings to life the soldier in the Middle Ages, from Scotland to Portugal, and the Mediterranean to the Baltic. All aspects of soldiers' lifes, including weaponry, clothing, medicine, transport, and more, are examined.

Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages

Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages
Title Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 338
Release 2007-04-30
Genre History
ISBN 0313042012

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The most dangerous arms in the world are those of horse and lance, because there is no means of stopping them, wrote a 15th-century commander, Jean de Bueil. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the 15th century, the men (and a few women in disguise) who reported for military service or who led other men, scouted and skirmished, plundered and burned. If they did not slaughter the peasants they met, they took them prisoner to be sold as slaves or ransomed at heavy cost. It was a brutal time. Rogers illuminates the history of medieval soldiers in wartime and in peacetime, describing the lives of those who attacked, and those who defended, the fortified castles, towns, and lands of Europe and beyond in the Middle Age.

Soldiers of Christ

Soldiers of Christ
Title Soldiers of Christ PDF eBook
Author Thomas F. X. Noble
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 432
Release 2010-11-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 0271043350

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Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages

Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages
Title Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Michael Prestwich
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 410
Release 1999-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780300076639

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A history of the war experience of 13th and 14th century England. With anecdotes and illustrations, it explores how English medieval armies fought, how men were recruited, how the troops were fed, supplied and deployed, the development of weapons, and the structure of military command.

The Middle Ages

The Middle Ages
Title The Middle Ages PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey L. Singman
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2013
Genre HISTORY
ISBN 9781454909057

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We consider the Middle Ages barbaric, yet the period furnished some of our most enduring icons, including King Arthur's Round Table, knights in shining armor, and the idealized noblewoman. In this vivid history of the time, the medieval world comes to life in all its rich daily experience. Find out what people's beds were like, how often they washed, what they wore, what they cooked, how they worked, how they entertained themselves, how they wed, and what life was like in a medieval village, castle, or monastery. Contemporary artworks and documents further illuminate this fascinating historical era.

Medieval Bodies

Medieval Bodies
Title Medieval Bodies PDF eBook
Author Jack Hartnell
Publisher Profile Books
Pages 306
Release 2018-03-29
Genre History
ISBN 178283270X

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A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time in the process. Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Medieval Bodies is published in association with Wellcome Collection.

Castles, Battles, & Bombs

Castles, Battles, & Bombs
Title Castles, Battles, & Bombs PDF eBook
Author Jurgen Brauer
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 425
Release 2008-11-15
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0226071650

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Castles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly expensive, a strong castle was far cheaper to maintain than a standing army. The authors also reexamine the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II and provide new insights into France’s decision to develop nuclear weapons. Drawing on these examples and more, Brauer and Van Tuyll suggest lessons for today’s military, from counterterrorist strategy and military manpower planning to the use of private military companies in Afghanistan and Iraq. "In bringing economics into assessments of military history, [the authors] also bring illumination. . . . [The authors] turn their interdisciplinary lens on the mercenary arrangements of Renaissance Italy; the wars of Marlborough, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon; Grant's campaigns in the Civil War; and the strategic bombings of World War II. The results are invariably stimulating."—Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly "This study is serious, creative, important. As an economist I am happy to see economics so professionally applied to illuminate major decisions in the history of warfare."—Thomas C. Schelling, Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics