Chapter 1 – Early Medieval Mercenaries
Frank Barlow, William I and the Norman Conquest. New York: MacMillan, 1965.
Brian Golding, Conquest and Colonization, 1066–1100. London: St. Martin’s, 1994.
David Howarth, 1066. The Year of the Conquest. New York: Dorset, 1977.
William Kapelle, The Norman Conquest of the North. The Region and its Transformation, 1000–1135. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1979.
Helen Nicholson, Medieval warfare: theory and practice of war in Europe, 300–1500. New York: Palgrave, 2004.
Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson, King Harald’s Saga. Harald Hardradi of Norway. From Snorri Sturluson’s Heimkringla. New York: Dorset, 1966.
Snorri Sturluson, Heimskringla. History of the Kings of Norway. Trans. Lee M. Hollander. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964.
Chapter 2 – Early Italian Mercenaries
Philippe Contamine, War in the Middle Ages. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.
Joseph Jay Diess, Captains of Fortune. Profiles of Six Italian Condottieri. New York: Thomas Crowell, 1967.
David Nicolle, Italian Medieval Armies, 1300–1500. London: Osprey, 1983.
Chapter 3 – The ‘Classic’ Medieval Mercenary
Sir John Froissart, Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries. Trans. Thomas Johnes. New York: Leavitt, Trow and Co, 1848.
Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages. New York: St Martin, 1949.
John Schlight, Monarchs and Mercenaries. A Reappraisal of the Importance of Knight Service in Norman and Early Angevin England. New York: New York University Press, 1968.
Chapter 4 – Chivalry
Malcolm Barber, ed., The Military Orders: Fighting for the Faith and Caring for the Sick. Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1994.
Richard Barber, The Knight and Chivalry. Revised edition. Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press, 1995.
Mary Fischer, ‘Di Himels Rote’, The Idea of Christian Chivalry in the Chronicles of the Teutonic Order.’ Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1991.
Maurice Keen, Chivalry. New Haven and London: Yale, 1984.
William Urban, ‘The Teutonic Knights and Baltic Chivalry.’ The Historian, 56/3 (1994): 519–30.
Malcolm Vale, War and Chivalry. Warfare and Aristocratic Culture in England, France and Burgundy at the End of the Middle Ages. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1981.
Chapter 5 – The Hundred Years War: Part One
Andrian Bell, War and the Soldier in the Fourteenth Century. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004.
Eric Christiansen, ‘A Fine Life’, The New York Review of Books, (30November, 2000).
Anne Curry, The Hundred Years War. Blasingstock: MacMillan, 1993.
Kenneth Fowler, Medieval Mercenaries. Vol. 1: The Great Companies. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
Maurice Keen, Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages. London: Hamilton, 1996.
Jonathan Sumption, The Hundred Years War. 2 volumes. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 1999, 2000.
Barbara Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: the calamitous fourteenth century. Saddle Brook, New Jersey: Stratford Press, 1978.
Richard Venier, The Flower of Chivalry. Bertrand du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003.
Nicholas Wright, Knights and Peasants in the Hundred Years War in the French Countryside. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1998.
Chapter 6 – Forming the Victorian Imagination: Chaucer’s Knight and MarkTwain’s Saint
Terry Jones, Chaucer’s Knight. The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary. New York: Methuen, 1985.
Mark Twain, Historical Romances. Vol. 3, Penguin Books, 1984.
Chapter 7 – Forming the Victorian Imagination: The White Company
John Dickson Carr, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: Harper, 1949.
Chapter 8 – The Crusades in the Baltic
The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia. Translated by James Brundage. 2nd edition. New York: Columbia, 2003.
Eric Christiansen, The Northern Crusades: The Baltic and the Catholic Frontier 1100–1525. New York: MacMillan Press Ltd, 1980.
Sven Ekdahl, ‘Soldtruppen des Deutschen Ordens im Krieg gegen Polen 1409,’ Le Convoi Militaire, fasciculi archaelogiae historicae Lodź, 2002, 47–64.
Helen Nicholson, ed. The Military Orders: Welfare and Warfare. Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate, 1998.
Jerry C. Smith and William Urban, ‘Peter von Suchenwirt.’ Lituanus, 31/2 (1985), 5–26.
Stephen Turnbull, Tannenberg 1410. Disaster for the Teutonic Knights. London: Osprey, 2003.
William Urban, The Baltic Crusade. Chicago: Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, 1994.
William Urban, The Livonian Crusade. Chicago: Lithuanian Research and Studies Center, 2004.
Chapter 9 – The Hundred Years War: Part Two
Henry Stanley Bennett, ‘Sir John Fastolf,’ Six Medieval Men and Women. Cambridge, 1955.
Anne Curry and Michael Hughes, editors, Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1994.
Paul Murray Kendall, Louis XI: The Universal Spider. New York, W.W. Norton, 1971.
The Chronicle of Jean de Venette. Trans. Jean Birdsall. Edit Richard Newhall. New York: Columbia, 1953.
The Memoirs of Philippe de Commynes. Edited by Samuel Kinser. 2 vols. Translated by Isabelle Cazeaux. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1969, 1973.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Harvard Edition. Boston, 1886.
Richard Vaughan, Charles the Bold, the Last Valois Duke of Burgundy. New York: Harpers, 1973.
Chapter 10 – The Renaissance
Ernst Breisach, Caterina Sforza. A Renaissance Virago. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
Francesco Guicciardini, The History of Italy. Translated by Sidney Alexander. London: Macmillan, 1969.
Michael Mallett, Mercenaries and their Masters; warfare in Renaissance Italy. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1974.
Chapter 11 – The Black Guard
William Urban, Dithmarschen, a medieval peasant republic. Lewiston: Mellen Press, 1991.
Walters Lammers, Die Schlacht bei Hemmingstedt. Heide: Boyens, 1982.
Chapter 12 – Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince. London & Toronto: J. M. Bent, 1908.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses. Numerous translations.
Chapter 13 – Mercenaries in the Late Medieval Baltic
Sven Ekdahl, ‘Zwei Musterungslisten von Deutschordens-Söldnern aus den Jahren 1413 und 1431.’ Arma et Ollae, Lodź, 1992.
Juhan Kreem, ‘The Business of War. Mercenary Market and Organisation in Reval in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries.’ Scandinavian Economic History Review, 49/2 (2001) 26–42.
The Chronicle of Balthasar Russow. Translated by Jerry C. Smith and William Urban. Madison: Baltic Studies, 1988.
