The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare

22 Bibliography of secondary sources and further reading

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Works that are particularly recommended for new students and make good introductions are starred *.

GENERAL WORKS

Barber, Richard, The Reign of Chivalry, New York, 1980 *

Cantor, Norman F., ed., The Pimlico Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, London, 1999

Chambers Dictionary of World History, ed. B.P. Lenman, Edinburgh, 1993

Chronology of the Medieval World 800–1491, ed. R.L. Storey, Oxford, 1973

Cohen, G., Histoire de la chevalerie en France au moyen âge, Paris, 1949

Contamine, P., War in the Middle Ages, trans. M. Jones, Oxford, 1984

Delbrück, Hans, History of the Art of War, iii, The Middle Ages, trans. W.J. Renfroe Jr, Westport, 1982

Delpech, H., La Tactique au XIIIe siècle, 2 vols, Paris, 1886

DeVries, Kelly, Medieval Military Technology, Ontario, 1992

Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare, ed. M. Bennett, Oxford, 1998

Dupuy, R. Ernest and Trevor N. Dupuy, The Collins Encyclopedia of Military History, 4th edition, London, 1993

Encyclopedia of World History, ed. F. Alexander, Oxford, 1998

Gardiner, Juliet and Neil Wenborn, The History Today Companion to British History, London, 1995

Hallam, Elizabeth, ed., Chronicles of the Age of Chivalry, London, 1987 *

Hooper, N. and M. Bennett, The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare, The Middle Ages, 768–1487, Cambridge, 1996

Keen, Maurice, Chivalry, London, 1984

Keen, Maurice, The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages, London, 1965

Keen, Maurice, ed., Medieval Warfare: A History, Oxford, 1999

Koch, H.W., Medieval Warfare, London, 1978

Köhler, G., Die Entwickelung des Kriegswesens und der Kriegführung in der Ritterzeit, 5 vols, Breslau, 1886–9

Natkiel, R. and J. Pimlott, Atlas of Warfare, London, 1988

Nicolle, David, Medieval Warfare Source Book: Warfare in Western Christendom, London, 1995

Nicolle, David, Medieval Warfare Source Book, vol. II: Christian Europe and its Neighbours, London, 1996

Oman, C., A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages, 2 vols, London 1991 (first published 1924)

Oman, C., The Art of War in the Middle Ages, ed. J.H. Beeler, Ithaca, 1953

Painter, Sidney, French Chivalry, Baltimore, 1940

Prestwich, M., War, Politics and Finance under Edward I, London, 1972

Russell, F.H., The Just War in the Middle Ages, Cambridge, 1975

Stenton, F.M., The First Century of English Feudalism, 2nd edition, Oxford, 1961

Vale, Malcolm, War and Chivalry, London, 1981

Verbruggen, J.F., The Art of Warfare in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, 2nd edition, Woodbridge, 1997

White, Lynn, Jr, Medieval Technology and Social Change, Oxford, 1962

SECONDARY WORKS RELATING TO SECTIONS IN THE BOOK

1 ROMANS AND BARBARIANS, 400–750

Bachrach, B.S., Merovingian Military Organization, 481–751, Minneapolis, 1972

Collins, R., Early Medieval Europe 300–1000, 2nd edition, London, 1999 *

James, E., The Origins of France, London, 1982

Randers-Pehrson, J.D., Barbarians and Romans, Norman, 1983

Wallace-Hadrill, J.M., The Barbarian West 400–1000, London, 1952 *

Wood, I., The Merovingian Kingdoms 450–751, Harlow, 1994

2 CHARLEMAGNE AND THE CAROLINGIANS, 750–850

Beeler, J., Warfare in Feudal Europe, 730–1200, London, 1972 *

Boussard, J., trans. F. Partridge, The Civilisation of Charlemagne, London, 1968

Bullough, D., The Age of Charlemagne, London, 1980

Collins, R., Charlemagne, London, 1998

Halphen, L., trans. G. De Nie, Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire, Oxford, 1977

James, E., The Origins of France from Clovis to the Capetians, 500–1000, London, 1982 *

McKitterick, R., The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751–987, Harlow, 1983

Munz, P., Life in the Age of Charlemagne, London, 1969

Nelson, J.L., Charles the Bald, Harlow, 1992

Riché, P., trans. M.I. Allen, The Carolingians, a Family who Forged Europe, Philadelphia, 1993

Winston, R., Charlemagne, from the Hammer to the Cross, London, 1956 *

3 THE VIKINGS, SCANDINAVIA AND NORTHERN EUROPE, 850–1050

Arbman, Holger, The Vikings, London, 1961 *

Christiansen, E., The Northern Crusades, London, 1980

Foote, P.G. and D.M. Wilson, The Viking Achievement, London, 1970

Haywood, John, Encyclopaedia of the Viking Age, London, 2000

Jones, Gwyn, A History of the Vikings, Oxford, 1973

Logan, F. Donald, The Vikings in History, London, 1983

Magnusson, Magnus, Vikings!, London, 1980 *

Oxenstierna, Eric Graf, The World of the Norsemen, trans. J. Sondheimer, London, 1967

Poertner, Peter, The Vikings, trans. S. Wilkins, London, 1975

Roesdahl, Else, The Vikings, trans. S.M. Margeson and K. Williams, London, 1991

Sawyer, Peter, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings, Oxford, 1997

Wilson, David, The Vikings and their Origins, London, 1970

4 THE ANGLO-SAXON INVASIONS AND ENGLAND, 450–1066

Abels, Richard P., Lordship and Military Obligation in Anglo-Saxon England, London, 1988

Brandon, Peter, ed., The South Saxons, Chichester, 1978

Campbell, James, ed., The Anglo-Saxons, London, 1982 *

Henson, Donald, A Guide to Late Anglo-Saxon England, from Aelfred to Eadgar II, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1997

Holmes, Michael, King Arthur, a Military History, London, 1996

Kirby, D.P., The Earliest English Kings, 2nd edition, London, 2000

Loyn, H.R., The Making of the English Nation, London, 1991 *

Morris, John, The Age of Arthur, London, 1973

Pollingston, Stephen, The English Warrior, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1996

Stenton, F.M., Anglo-Saxon England, 2nd edition, Oxford, 1947

Sturdy, David, Alfred the Great, London, 1995

Whittock, Martyn J., The Origins of England, 410–600, London, 1986

Williams, Ann, The English and the Norman Conquest, Woodbridge, 1995

Wilson, D.M., The Anglo-Saxons, London, 1960 *

5 THE NORMAN CONQUESTS IN BRITAIN AND EUROPE, 911–1154

Bates, David, Normandy before 1066, Harlow, 1982

Bates, David, William the Conqueror, London, 1989 *

Beeler, John, Warfare in England 1066–1189, New York, 1966 *

Bradbury, Jim, Stephen and Matilda, Stroud, 1996

Bradbury, Jim, The Battle of Hastings, Stroud, 1998

Brown, R.A., The Normans, Woodbridge, 1984

Brown, R.A., The Normans and the Norman Conquest, 2nd edition, Woodbridge, 1985

Chibnall, Marjorie, The Empress Matilda, Oxford, 1991

Cronne, H.A., The Reign of Stephen, London, 1970

Curtis, Edmund, Roger the Great, London, 1912

Davis, R.H.C., King Stephen, 3rd edition, Harlow, 1990

Douglas, David C., The Norman Achievement, London, 1969

Douglas, David C., The Norman Fate, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1976

Douglas, David C., William the Conqueror, London, 1964

Kapelle, William E., The Norman Conquest of the North, London, 1979

Le Patourel, John, The Norman Empire, Oxford, 1976

Loyn, H.R., The Norman Conquest, 3rd edition, London, 1982

Matthew, Donald, The Norman Kingdom of Sicily, Cambridge, 1992

Morillo, Stephen, Warfare under the Anglo-Norman Kings, Woodbridge, 1994

Norwich, John Julius, The Kingdom in the Sun, London, 1970 *

Norwich, John Julius, The Normans in the South, London, 1967 *

Williams, Ann, The English and the Norman Conquest, Woodbridge, 1995

6 THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE AND CENTRAL EUROPE, 850–1500

Abulafia, David, Frederick II, London, 1988

Arnold, Benjamin, Medieval Germany, 500–1300, London, 1997 *

Barraclough, Geoffrey, Medieval Germany, 911–1250, 2 vols, Oxford, 1938

Du Boulay, F.R.H., Germany in the Later Middle Ages, London, 1983

Hampe, Karl, Germany under the Salian and Hohenstaufen Emperors, trans. R. Bennett, Oxford, 1973

Leyser, K.J., Medieval Germany and its Neighbours, 900–1250, London, 1982

Lukowski, Jerzy and Hubert Zawadzki, A Concise History of Poland, Cambridge, 2001

Munz, Peter, Frederick Barbarossa, London, 1969 *

Reuter, Timothy, Germany in the Early Middle Ages, 800–1056, Harlow, 1991 *

7 THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND EASTERN EUROPE, 400–1453

Bartusis, Mark C., The Late Byzantine Army, Philadelphia, 1992

Baynes, Norman H. and H. St. L.B. Moss, eds., Byzantium, Oxford, 1948

Browning, R., Byzantium and Bulgaria, London, 1975

Fine, John V.A., The Early Medieval Balkans, Michigan, 1983

Fine, John V.A. Jr, The Late Medieval Balkans, Michigan, 1987

Freely, John, Istanbul, London, 1996 *

Haldon, John, Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World, 565–1204, London, 1999

Hoetzsch, Otto, The Evolution of Russia, London, 1966 *

Macartney, C.A., Hungary, a Short History, Edinburgh, 1962

Morgan, David, The Mongols, Oxford, 1986 *

Norwich, John Julius, Byzantium, 3 vols, London, 1988–95 *

Obolensky, Dimitri, The Byzantine Commonwealth, London, 1971

Runciman, Steven, The Fall of Constantinople 1453, Cambridge, 1965 *

Shaw, Stanford J., History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, vol. I., Cambridge, 1976

Stiles, Andrina, The Ottoman Empire 1450–1700, London, 1989

Treadgold, Warren, A Concise History of Byzantium, Houndmills, 2001

Vryonis, Speros, Byzantium and Europe, London, 1967

Whitting, Philip, ed., Byzantium, an Introduction, Oxford, 1972

8 THE CRUSADES, 1095–1500

Billings, Malcolm, The Cross and the Crescent, London, 1987 *

France, John, Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades 1000–1300, New York, 1999

Housley, Norman, The Later Crusades, Oxford, 1992

Godfrey, John, 1204, The Unholy Crusade, Oxford, 1980 *

Maalouf, Amin, The Crusades through Arab Eyes, trans. Jon Rothschild, London, 1984

Madaule, Jacques, The Albigensian Crusade, trans. B. Wall, London, 1967

Marshall, Christopher, Warfare in the Latin East 1192–1291, Cambridge, 1992

Mayer, Hans Eberhard, The Crusades, Oxford, 1972

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The Crusades, a Short History, London, 1987 *

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, ed., The Atlas of the Crusades, London, 1991

Riley-Smith, Jonathan, ed., The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, Oxford, 1995

Rogers, R., Latin Siege Warfare in the Twelfth Century, Oxford, 1992

Runciman, Steven, A History of the Crusades, 3 vols, Cambridge, 1951–4

Smail, R.C., Crusading Warfare 1097–1193, Cambridge, 1956

Smail, R.C., The Crusaders, London, 1973

Strayer, Joseph R., The Albigensian Crusades, Michigan, 1971

Sumption, Jonathan, The Albigensian Crusade, London, 1978

9 THE CAPETIANS AND THE VALOIS, FRANCE 987–1500

Bradbury, Jim, Philip Augustus, London, 1988

Burne, Alfred H., The Agincourt War, London, 1956

Burne, Alfred H., The Crecy War, London, 1955

Curry, Anne and M. Hughes, eds., Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War, Woodbridge, 1994

Duby, Georges, France in the Middle Ages 987–1460, trans. J. Vale, Oxford, 1991

Dunbabin, Jean, France in the Making 843–1180, Oxford, 1985 *

Fawtier, Robert, The Capetian Kings of France, trans. L. Butler and R.J. Adam, London, 1964

Fowler, Kenneth, The Age of Plantagenet and Valois, London, 1980

Funck-Brentano, Fr., The National History of France: The Middle Ages, trans. E. O’Neill, London, 1922

Hallam, Elizabeth M. and J. Everard, Capetian France, 2nd edition, London, 2001

Jones, Colin, The Cambridge Illustrated History of France, Cambridge, 1994

Nicholas, David, Medieval Flanders, Harlow, 1992

Perroy, Edouard, The Hundred Years War, trans. W.B. Wells, London, 1965

Seward, Desmond, The Hundred Years War, London, 1978 *

Sumption, Jonathan, Trial by Battle: The Hundred Years War, 2 vols, London, 1990–9

Tuchman, Barbara W., A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, London, 1979 *

Vaughan, Richard, Valois Burgundy, London, 1975

10 THE ANGEVINS TO THE TUDORS, BRITAIN 1154–1485

Boardman, A.W., The Medieval Soldier in the Wars of the Roses, Stroud, 1998

Burne, Alfred H., The Battlefields of England, 2nd edition, London, 1951

Burne, Alfred H., More Battlefields of England, London, 1952

Clanchy, M.T., England and its Rulers, 1066–1272, Oxford, 1983

Gillingham, J., The Wars of the Roses, London, 1981 *

Goodman, A., A History of England from Edward II to James I, London, 1977

Goodman, A., The Wars of the Roses, London, 1981

Greene, Howard, The Battlefields of Britain and Ireland, London, 1973

Mortimer, Richard, Angevin England, 1154–1258, Oxford, 1994

Seymour, William, Battles in Britain, vol. I, London, 1975

11 IBERIA AND THE RECONQUISTA, 850–1492

Bisson, T.N., The Medieval Crown of Aragon, Oxford, 1986

Burns, Robert I., ed., The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror, Princeton, 1985

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe, Ferdinand and Isabella, London, 1975 *

Jackson, Gabriel, The Making of Medieval Spain, London, 1972 *

Kennedy, Hugh, Muslim Spain and Portugal, Harlow, 1996

Mackay, A., Spain in the Middle Ages, London, 1977

Reilly, Bernard F., The Medieval Spains, Cambridge, 1993 *

Trevelyan, Raleigh, Shades of the Alhambra, London, 1984 *

12 RENAISSANCE ITALY, 1250–1525

Chamberlin, E.R., The World of the Italian Renaissance, London, 1982

Hale, J.R., ed., A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance, London, 1981

Hay, Denys, The Italian Renaissance, 2nd edition, Cambridge, 1977 *

Laven, Peter, Renaissance Italy, London, 1966

Runciman, Steven, The Sicilian Vespers, Cambridge, 1958 *

Ryder, Alan, The Kingdom of Naples under Alfonso the Magnanimous, Oxford, 1976

Trease, Geoffrey, The Condottieri, London, 1970 *

Waley, Daniel, The Italian City-Republics, 3rd edition, Harlow, 1988

13 ARMS OF THE WARRIOR

Ashdown, C.H., British and Continental Arms and Armour, London, 1970

Boutell, C., Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, trans. from M.P. Lacombe and ed., London, 1907

De Vries, K., Medieval Military Technology, Ontario, 1992 *

Hardy, Robert, Longbow, Portsmouth, 1986 *

Hawkes, S.C., ed., Weapons and Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, 1989

Hewitt, J., Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe, 3 vols, London, 1855–60

Norman, V., Arms and Armour, London, 1969 *

Oakeshott, E., The Archaeology of Weapons, London, 1960

Oakeshott, E., The Sword in the Age of Chivalry, 2nd edition, Woodbridge, 1994

Peirce, Ian, Swords of the Viking Age, Woodbridge, 2002

Pollington, S., The English Warrior, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 1996

14 ARMOUR

See also Section 13 books on arms and armour

Blair, C., European Armour circa 1066 to circa 1700, London, 1958

ffoulkes, C.J., The Armourer and his Craft from the 11th to the 15th Century, London, 1912

Houston, M.G., Medieval Costume in England and France, London, 1939

Thordemann, B., Armour from the Battle of Visby, Stockholm, 1939

Waterer, J.W., Leather and the Warrior, Northampton, 1981

15 HERALDRY

Ailes, Adrian, ‘Heraldry in Twelfth-century England: The Evidence’, England in the Twelfth Century, Proceedings of the 1988 Harlaxton Symposium, Woodbridge, 1990, pp. 1–16

Brault, Gerard J., Early Blazon, Oxford, 1972

Franklyn, Julian, Shield and Crest, London, 1960

Neubecker, Ottfried, Heraldry: Sources, Symbols and Meaning, London, 1977

Pastoureau, Michel, Heraldry, its Origins and Meaning, trans. F. Garvie, London, 1997

Pine, L.G., The Story of Heraldry, London, 1952 *

Rothery, Guy Cadogan, Concise Encyclopedia of Heraldry, London, 1994

Wagner, Anthony, Heralds and Ancestors, London, 1978

Wagner, Anthony, Historic Heraldry of Britain, Oxford, 1939

16 MEDIEVAL ARMIES