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Warfare in Europe in the middle ages underwent a marked change of emphasis as urban life expanded. The concentration of wealth represented by a city was a valuable objective; success, even if less immediate, was more easily confirmed by subsequent administrative arrangements; and logistically, the static nature of a siege was infinitely preferable to the uncertainties of campaign. As the incidence of sieges increased, so pitched battles declined.

The studies in this book, intended for specialists as well as general readers, offer some of the very best new scholarship on medieval military history. They follow the history of siege warfare, exploring the urban milieu within which it developed, and the evolution of siege technology up to the advent of gunpowder weaponry.

The logistics of specific sieges, not only in medieval Europe, but also in the Crusader kingdoms in the Near East and the Byzantine Empire, are carefully delineated (including the range of options available in defensive actions), resulting in a valuable comparative perspective.

Evidence drawn from archaeology, literature, engineering, architecture and cliometrics brings to life the realities of a siege campaign - and, in its practical details, sheds light on the perennially challenging question of the relationship of medieval military strategy with that of Classical Antiquity and the Renaissance.

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Boydell Press
Language
English
Pages
292

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Table of Contents

New perspectives on medieval siege warfare / Michael Wolfe
Life on the cutting edge : the besieged town on the Luso-Hispanic frontier in the twelfth century / James F. Powers
The medieval German city under siege / Michael Toch
Siege warfare and the bonnes villes of France during the Hundred Years War / Michael Wolfe
Town defences in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem / Denys Pringle
Byzantine siege warfare in theory and practice / Eric McGeer
Artillery in late antiquity : prelude to the Middle Ages / Paul E. Chevedden
Siege warfare in medieval Hispanic epic and romance / Michael Harney
The slings and arrows of outrageous love in the Roman de la rose / Heather Arden
Chivalry under siege in Ricardian romance / Winthrop Wetherbee
The gunpowder weaponry on siege warfare in the Hundred Years War / Kelly DeVries
Siegecraft in late fifteenth-century Italy / Michael Mallett
The changing face of siege warfare : technology and tactics in transition / Bert S. Hall.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, Rochester, NY, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
907.2
Library of Congress
D128 .M43 1995, D128.M43 1995, D128 .M43 1995eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
292 p., [6] p. of plates :
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1094653M
Internet Archive
medievalcityunde0000unse
ISBN 10
0851155618
LCCN
94019121
OCLC/WorldCat
45842459, 30509774
Library Thing
7573751
Goodreads
4750973

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