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Author Contamine, Philippe.

Title War in the Middle Ages / Philippe Contamine ; translated by Michael Jones
Published Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1984

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Description xvi, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents pt. I: The state of knowledge : general characteristics of medieval military history. The barbarians from the fifth to the ninth century ; The feudal age from the beginning of the tenth to the middle of the twelfth century ; Medieval society in its prime from the mid-twelfth to the early fourteenth century ; Free companies, gunpowder and permanent armies from the beginning of the fourteenth to the end of the fifteenth century -- pt. II: Themes and perspectives. Arms and armour ; Artillery ; The art of war ; War, government and society ; Towards a history of courage ; Juridical, ethical and religious aspects of war
Analysis Europe Warfare, 400-1500
Notes Includes index
Translation of: La guerre au Moyen Age
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [309]-360
Notes Translation of: La guerre au moyen age
Subject Middle Ages.
Military art and science -- Europe -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500
Military art and science -- Europe -- History.
Military history, Medieval.
SUBJECT Europe -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045720
LC no. 84014647
ISBN 0631131426
Other Titles Guerre au Moyen Age. English