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"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.
Contents
1. The Economics of Treachery: The Betrayal of Urban Strongholds in North-Western Europe, c. 1000-1150 - James Titterton
2. Obligation and Opportunity: Urban Military Service in Medieval England - Craig M. Nakashian
3. Choosing to Resist: the Economics of Morale in Towns under Siege - Steven Isaac
4. Military Citizenship Agreements in Thirteenth-Century Germany - David S. Bachrach
5. The Character of Warfare and Society in the Lombard Cities in the later 12th and early 13th Centuries - John France
6. Tuscan Warfare and Angevin Identity in Naples's Hundred Years' War (1266-1382) - J. Tucker Million
7. Under Occupation? The Scottish Urban Experience of War with England, 1332-57 - Iain A. MacInnes
8. Places of Honor: Andalucían Cities in Chivalric Memory - Samuel A. Claussen
9. Accounting for Urban Warmaking in Late Medieval France - Michael Wolfe
10. Historical and Historiographical Significance of the City of Murcia during the War of the Two Pedros (1356-1366) or The Documentary Asymmetry of War Reporting in Late Fourteenth-Century Iberia - L. J. Andrew Villalon
11. Deployment, Service, Wages, and National Composition of Late Medieval Italian Armies: Evidence from the Cavalry Musters of Bologna, 1376-1392 - Michael Paul Martoccio
