Medieval Warfare 9780198206392, 0198206399

Table of contents :
1. Introduction
PART I: PHASES OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE
2. Carolingian and Ottonian Warfare
3. The Vikings
4. An Age of Expansion c.1020-1204
5. Warfare in the Latin East
6. European Warfare, c.1200-1320
7. The Age of the Hundred Years War
PART II: THE ARTS OF WARFARE
8. Fortifications and Sieges in Western Europe, 800-1450
9. Arms, Armour and Horses
10. Mercenaries
11. Naval Warfare in the Viking Age, c.1100-1500
12. War and the Non-Combatant in the Middle Ages
13. The Changing Scene: Guns, Gunpowder, and Permanent Armies
Further Reading, Chronology, Index

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