CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Foreword by Terry Jones

Preface

Maps

1     Early Medieval Mercenaries

2     Early Italian Mercenaries

3     The ‘Classic’ Medieval Mercenary

4     Chivalry

5     The Hundred Years War: Part One

6     Forming the Victorian Imagination: Chaucer’s Knight and Twain’s Saint

7     Forming the Victorian Imagination: The White Company

8     The Crusades in the Baltic

9     The Hundred Years War: Part Two

10   The Renaissance

11   The Black Guard

12   Machiavelli

13   Mercenaries in the Late Medieval Baltic

14   Summary

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