The Medieval Siege

Bradbury, Jim

ISBN 10: 0851153127 / ISBN 13: 9780851153124

Published by Boydell Press, United Kingdom, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Medieval Siege

Publisher: Boydell Press, United Kingdom

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: Reprint

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Synopsis:

In medieval warfare, the siege predominated: for every battle, there were hundreds of sieges. Yet the rich and vivid history of siege warfare has been consistently neglected. Jim Bradbury's panoramic survey takes the history of siege warfare in Europe from the late Roman Empire to the 16th century, and includes sieges in Byzantium, Eastern Europe and the areas affected by the Crusades. Within this broad sweep of time and place, he finds, not that enormous changes occurred, which might have been expected, but that the rules and methods of siege warfare remained remarkably constant. His narrative of the main events of siege warfare includes adetailed study of some of the major sieges —Constantinople and Chateau-Gaillard, among others — and also presents evidence relating to the development of siege weapons and siege warfare. A history of sieges necessarily brings the people caught up in them, besieger and besieged, clearly before the reader; stories from chronicles and letters of danger, famine, endurance and heroism reach out with an immediacy that provides a powerful human context for this study.JIM BRADBURY is the author of The Medieval Archer; he writes and lectures on battles and warfare in England and France in the middle ages.

About the Author:

JIM BRADBURY is the author of The Medieval Archer; he writes and lectures on battles and warfare in England and France in the Middle Ages.