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Title: Medieval Warfare: A History by Maurice Hugh Keen, Maurice Keen ISBN: 0-19-820639-9 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Huzzah!
Comment: In 'Medieval Warfare: A History', Maurice Keen, a fellow in Medieval History at Balliol Oxford (a college I attended briefly for lectures while I lived in Britain) has edited a superb compilation of essays, from a worthy collection of scholars from British and Irish Colleges, with one contributor from West Point.
The book is divided into two broad categories: The Phases of Medieval Warfare, and The Arts of Warfare. This collection spans nearly a millenium of warfare in the European theatre and environs including Vikings, Crusades, French & English wars, and Charlemagne. There are investigations of tactics, strategies, politics, technology and weaponry innovations, and the growing importance of navigation and naval warfare. Each essay has accompanying illustrations and photographs, and this slim volume is a worthy addition to any medieval or military historian's library as a survey of medieval warfare.
Keen's analysis is insightful, showing how developments in the medieval arts of war led to the the drive toward colonisation that has made the world's political geography what it is today. The essays work well at illuminating the subject, yet each essay has its own integrity.
As Keen writes in the preface: 'Warfare was a formative influence on the civilisation and the social structures of the European middle ages. Its history in that period is in consequence of high significance alike for those who are interested in the middle ages for themselves and for their legacy, and for those whose interest is in war and its place in the story of human development. '
There are many theories of the development of history -- one of the strongest theories of history through much of history is that warfare is one of the primary driving forces, for social change, for political change, and for technological change.
Keen pulls together in the last few paragraphs the themes of many of the essays, pointing the direction toward modern warfare.
This is a book worthy of Oxford Press.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: This is a Great Book, provided me with a lot of information about medieval warfare, like the tactics and stuff. gotta give phat props to the author.
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Title: Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience by Michael Prestwich ISBN: 0300076630 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Art of War in the Middle Ages A. D. 378-1515 by Charles W. Oman ISBN: 0801490626 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century : Discipline, Tactics, and Technology (Warfare in History) by Kelly DeVries ISBN: 0851155715 Publisher: Boydell Press Pub. Date: 17 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Art of Warfare in Western Europe: During the Middle Ages from the Eighth Century to 1340 (Warfare in History) by J.F. Verbruggen ISBN: 0851155707 Publisher: Boydell Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy ISBN: 0500051240 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 27 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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