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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
At Moson, the river Danube ran red with blood. At Antioch, the Crusaders -- their saddles freshly decorated with sawed-off heads -- indiscriminately clogged the streets with the bodies of eastern Christians and Turks. At Ma'arra, they cooked children on spits and ate them. By the time the Crusaders reached Jerusalem, their quest -- and their violence -- had become distinctly otherworldly: blood literally ran shin-deep through the streets as the Crusaders...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cornell U.P
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
This history of medieval warfare, originally written in 1885 when its author later one of the great medievalists was still an undergraduate at Oxford, remains for students and general readers one of the best accounts of military art in the Middle Ages between Adrianople in 378 A.D. (the most fearful defeat suffered by a Roman army since Cannae in 216 B.C.) and Marignano (1515 A.D.), the last of the triumphs of the medieval horseman.
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Examines the day-to-day life and experiences of a typical soldier during the middle ages in England and France. Includes a glossary of terms and a brief chronology of major military events from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
13) Armor
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The story of armor, how it evolved, how it was made, and even how the knight put the armor on.
17) Medieval warfare
Author
Publisher
Cresent Books
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
"Medieval Warfare" is a comprehensive illustrated history of the way, why and how war was fought from the fall of the Roman Empire through and including the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation. This the first serious work to analyze medieval warfaresince the publication of Sir Charles Oman's classic study more than forty years ago.
