1 W < ^<^^»»^i,**"«»^•|'"-- Kft/pr • •; H KOCH 'k i i A ^A "'V II 1 ^ ^^ I III ii ' li k "^S $35.00 MEDIEmL WARFARE HWKOCH With more than 350 iUustrations Medieval Waifare is a comprehensive illustrated history of the way, why and how war was fought from the fall of the Roman Empire through and including the Renaissance and Pro- testant Reformation. This is the first serious work to analyze medieval warfare sincethepub- lication ofSirCharlesOman'sclassicstudymore than forty years ago. This book includes more than 330 four-color illustrations and technical drawings showing the armor, equipment and uniforms of archers, cavalry men and infantrymen, as well as fifteen maps of medieval Europe and the batdes that changed it. Warfare was the very center of medieval society. Yet most studies of medieval history only discuss the relationship between serf and master, tradesmen and the Crown, almost ignoring the tact diat hundreds of wars, large and small, were fought every year in Europe. These studies also fail to acknowledge that the - Crusades altered medieval society, and that the Crusades represented a series oflarge-scale con- flictsthroughout Eastern Europeand dieMiddle East;andthatmajormedieval warsliketheHun- dred Years War completely transformed the societiesofBritain and France, creatingthemod- em nation-state. The authoritative l(K),(KX)-word text, written by H. W. Koch, with special contributions by Ian V. Hoggand P. L. Gwynn-Jones, combined withsuperbillustrations makeMedieval Wa\iareA modem classicand abreakthroughin thehistory ofthe Middle Ages. MedJCYol Medieyol D O warfare D ^ HWKDCH DORSET PRESS liO A BISON BOOK , Thiseditionpublishedby DorsetPress, adivisionofMarboroBooksCorp. byarrangementwithBisonBooksCorp. ProducedbyBisonBooksCorp. 15 SherwoodPlace Previous page. The capture of Asciiloii, logg (Chroniques Greenwich, CT06830 d'Oiitremer, fijlcetith century). © Copyright 1978BisonBooksLtd. Below. The Hundred Years' War: injantry scalitu^ the walls of an mAlalyribgehtrseprersoedruvceed.doNrotrpaarntsmoiftttehidsibnoaonkyform enemy encampment fChroniques de Charles VII, fifteenth orbyanymeanswithoutwrittenpermission century). fromthePublisher. ISBN0-86124-008-1 PrintedinHongKong Reprinted 1988 Page 7 Chapterone WarandMedievalWarfare Chaptertwo 11 TheRomanEmpireandTheRiseof TheBarbarians 23 Chapterthree TheChallengefromTheEast 37 Chapterfour TheEuropean Response 'Feudalism' 45 SiegeTechniques 57 Chapterfive EnglandandTheFeudalMilitary System 65 Chaptersix The SocialandMilitaryAspectsof Knighthood 77 Chapterseven Siegeand SiegecraftFortifications 87 Chaptereight TheCrusades 105 Chapternine TeutonicOrder 115 Heraldry 123 Chapterten Transformationof Warfare 139 Chaptereleven CitiesinWarfare 155 CastleBuildingTechniques 163 Chaptertwelve TheHussites 173 Chapterthirteen TheCondottieriandMercenaryCorps 187 Chapterfourteen Professionalism 201 Cannonsand Artillery 211 Chapter fifteen RenaissanceTrends 225 Chaptersixteen ThePeasantAtWar 239 Chapterseventeen The NewAge Alexanderthe Great(336B.C.-323B.C.) besiegesthecityofTyre,322B.C. Miniaturefrom aFrench ms ilhtstrating thehistoryofAlexanderthe Great.