The Cambridge History of War : Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

David A. Graff

ISBN 10: 0521877156 / ISBN 13: 9780521877152

Edité par Cambridge University Press Okt 2020, 2020

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Neuware - Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies - including gunpowder and the earliest firearms - by land and sea.

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• Titre: The Cambridge History of War : Volume 2, War and the Medieval World
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press Okt 2020
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521877156
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521877152
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 236 L x 162 H x 39 P (en millimètres) 236 millimètres de largeur par 162 millimètres de hauteur par 39 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1350 grammes

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Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies – including gunpowder and the earliest firearms – by land and sea.

À propos des auteurs

David A. Graff is Pickett Professor of Military History and Director of the Graduate Program in Security Studies at Kansas State University. An expert on China's military tradition, he is best known for his path-breaking book Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 (2002). He is a founder of the Chinese Military History Society and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Chinese Military History.

Anne Curry is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton and a former editor of the Journal of Medieval History. She is an expert on the Hundred Years War, especially the battle of Agincourt, and has pioneered new approaches to the study of armies using financial records, creating online databases of soldiers which have generated much popular as well as academic interest.