Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages
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Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2007
Print ISBN
9780313333507
eBook ISBN
9780313042010

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Series Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction
  11. Timeline
  12. One: Soldiering in Peacetime
  13. Two: Joining the Host
  14. Three: Camp Life and Mobile Operations
  15. Four: Sieges
  16. Five: Battle
  17. Six: The Aftermath of a Victory
  18. Seven: Little War
  19. Eight: Conclusion: The Life of One Active Warrior
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index