Autorentext
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. 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.

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
An expert account of war in the medieval period world-wide, showing how war is ubiquitous yet ever changing across space and time. Each chapter is written by a recognised expert in the field and demonstrates the place of war in society as well as examining how it was fought.

Inhalt

List of illustrations; List of maps; Notes on contributors; Introduction to volume II Anne Curry and David A. Graff; Part I. Foundations, c. 600 to 1000 CE; 1. The Early Islamic Empire and the Introduction of Military Slavery Matthew S. Gordon; 2. The Western European Kingdoms, 600-1000 Guy Halsall; 3. The Scandinavian World Anthony Perron; 4. Byzantium to the Twelfth Century John Haldon; 5. The Slavs, Avars and Hungarians Martyn Rady; 6. The Turks and the Other Peoples of the Eurasian Steppes, to 1175 Étienne de la Vaissière; 7. China: The Tang, 600-900 David A. Graff; 8. Japan to 1200 Karl Friday; Part II. Interactions, c. 1000-1300 CE; 9. Europe 1000-1300 David Crouch; 10. Crusaders and Settlers in the East 1096-1291: Christian Attack, Muslim Response John France; 11. The Mongol Empire Roman Hautala; 12. China 900-1400 Peter Lorge; Part III. Nations and Formations, c. 1300-1500 CE; 13. Western Europe 1300-1500 Anne Curry; 14. Warfare and Italian states, 1300-1500 William Caferro; 15. The Reconquest and the Spanish monarchies Donald J. Kagay; 16. The Byzantine Empire and the Balkans, 1204-1453 Mark C. Bartusis; 17. Ottoman Expansion and Military Power, 1300-1453 Gábor Ágoston; 18. India, c.1200 - c. 1500 Phillip B. Wagoner; 19. Southeast Asia, 1300-1540 CE Michael W. Charney; 20. Japan 1200-1550 Thomas D. Conlan; 21. The Americas Rubén G. Mendoza; Part IV. Comparisons, Cross-Cultural Analysis; 22. Justifications, Theories and Customs of War Stephen Morillo; 23. Technologies: Land Technologies Kelly DeVries and Technologies: Maritime Technologies John H. Pryor; Select bibliography; Index