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Title Mercenaries and paid men : the mercenary identity in the Middle Ages : proceedings of a conference held at University of Wales, Swansea, 7th-9th July 2005 / edited by John France
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 415 pages) : map
Series History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; v. 47
History of warfare ; v. 47. 1385-7827
Contents William Marshal and the mercenariat / David Crouch -- Revisiting mercenaries under Henry Fitz Empress, 1167-1188 / John D. Hosler -- Medieval mercenaries : methodology, definitions, and problems / Kelly DeVries -- Les mercenaires dans les campagnes napolitaines de Louis le Grand, Roi de Hongrie, 1347-1350 / Guido Guerri dall'Oro -- The Da Varano lords of Camerino as condotierre princes / John E. Law -- "Beneath the battle"? Miners and engineers as "mercenaries" in the Holy Land (XII-XIII siècles) / Nicolas Prouteau -- Soldiers of fortune in the fleets of Charles I of Anjou, King of Sicily, ca. 1265-85 / John H. Pryor -- Household men, mercenaries and Vikings in Anglo-Saxon England / Richard Abels -- Merovingian mercenaries and paid soldiers in imperial perspective / Bernard S. Bachrach -- The early Hungarians as mercenaries 860-955 / Charles R. Bowlus -- "Warriors fit for a prince" : Welsh troops in Angevin service, 1154-1216 / I.W. Rowlands -- Urban military forces of England and Germany c. 1240-c. 1315, a comparison / David S. Bachrach -- Mercenaries, Mamluks and militia : towards a cross-cultural typology of military service / Stephen Morillo -- The Anglo-Flemish treaties and Flemish soldiers in England 1101-1163 / Eljas Oksanen -- The origin of money-fiefs in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem / Alan V. Murray -- Mercenaries and paid men in Gilbert of Mons / Laura Napran -- The fourteenth century soldier : more Chaucer's knight or medieval career? / Adrian R. Bell -- What does a mercenary leave behind? The archaeological evidence for the estates of Owain Lawgoch / Spencer Gavin Smith -- The role of mercenary troops in Spain in the fourteenth century : the Civil War / Carlos Andrés González Paz -- The Teutonic Order's mercenaries during the "Great War" with Poland-Lithuania (1409-11) / Sven Ekdahl -- Scots mercenary forces in sixteenth century Ireland / Muríosa Prendergast -- The Irish mercenary tradition in the 1600s / Ciarán Óg O'Reilly
Summary Mercenaries have always had a poor press. Theirs is one of the world's oldest professions, but the very word has profoundly negative connotations of infidelity and ruthlessness. But if they were like this, were they so different from soldiers?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Chiefly in English with one contribution in French
Subject Mercenary troops -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Military art and science -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500 -- Congresses
Military history, Medieval -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Military -- Biological & Chemical Warfare.
Mercenary troops
Military art and science -- Medieval
Military history, Medieval
Landsknecht
Söldner
Söldner.
Europe
Europa.
Swansea <2005>
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author France, John.
LC no. 2008273167
ISBN 9789047432616
9047432614
1282397958
9781282397958
9786612397950
6612397950