Warfare in Feudal Europe, 730-1200 / John H. Beeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beeler, John H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military history, Medieval.

Military art and science--Europe--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 272 p.) maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Feudal military practices, which are as varied as those of modern times, are surveyed here for the first time. The author treats in detail the bases on which feudal service was exacted, the mustering and composition of armies and their subsequent operations in the field, and the qualifications of their commanders.He discusses military feudalism as it originated and developed in the Frankish kingdom of the Carolingians and as it operated during the early Capetian period in the Ile de France and the feudal principalities of northern France. He then follows feudal developments, in roughly chronological order, in those states where feudalism was consciously imported-lower Italy and Sicily, England, and Crusader Syria. He finally treats lands in which the military structure revealed some feudal characteristics but where institutions were never more than superficially feudalized-Southern France, Christian Spain, central and northern Italy, and Germany-describing how such factors as native military institutions, the pattern of landholding, economic structure, and manpower problems worked to modify feudal military institutions and practices.This book will illuminate for specialist and lay reader alike a strangely neglected aspect of feudal life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Maps

Introduction

1. Warfare in Carolingian Europe

2. Military Feudalism and the Early Capetians

3. Warfare in Norman Italy

4. The Norman Occupation of England

5. Crusader Syria: A Feudal Military Frontier

6. Warfare in Southern France and Christian Spain

7. Town versus Country: Feudal Wars in Central and Northern Italy

8. Military Feudalism in Germany

Conclusion

Bibliographic Note

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781501726828

150172682X

OCLC:

1080552025