Journal of Medieval Military History: Volume XXIII: Urban Communities and War in Medieval Europe (Journal of Medieval Military History, 23) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1837652805 ISBN 13: 9781837652808

Publisher: Boydell Press, 2025

Synopsis

"The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare." Medieval Warfare


This volume examines the diverse ways in which medieval European cities, towns, and other urban communities engaged with warfare. For northern Europe, articles consider how subterfuge and betrayal were deployed to capture strongholds, the role of urban communities (large and small) in English warfare in the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, how morale was maintained (or undermined) during a siege, how Scottish cities and towns supported efforts to resist English invasion, the military agreements with magnates used by Rhineland cities to promote peace, and what economic evidence can show us about the contribution of French cities to war efforts in the later Middle Ages.

Moving south, essays explore the nature of warfare in twelfth and thirteenth century Lombardy, the actions of the Angevin royal family in Tuscan urban warfare and politics, the composition of Italian armies (gleaned from cavalry musters from Bologna), the importance of the city of Murcia during the War of the Two Pedros, and the creation of chivalric spaces out of Andalucian cities.

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About the Authors

CRAIG M. NAKASHIAN is Dean of the Honors College and a professor of History at Texas A&M University-Texarkana.

PETER W. SPOSATO is an associate professor of history at Indiana University Kokomo.

David S. Bachrach is a professor of medieval history at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include the administrative and military history of the Carolingian Empire as well as the medieval German and English kingdoms.

JAMES TITTERTON received his PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. In addition to his work on the history of warfare, he has published on crusader rhetoric, chivalry and the medieval tournament.

SAMUEL A. CLAUSSEN is Assistant Professor of History at California Lutheran University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1837652805
• ISBN 13: 9781837652808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Nakashian Professor Craig M, Sposato Peter W