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Kriegsführung im Mittelalter. Handlungen, Erinnerungen, Bedeutungen
Prietzel, Malte

This standard work of medieval cultures of war covers numerous aspects of medieval warfare and highlights connections between various regions and eras.

Making History in Ninth-Century Northern and Southern Italy
Berto, Luigi Andrea

Making History in Ninth-Century Northern and Southern Italy focuses on historical narratives in Italy, where locals interacted with Muslims, Franks and Byzantines.

 

Medieval Chivalry
Kaeuper, Richard

Kaeuper’s book describes which aspects of chivalric life were the authors’ creations and which aspects had a connection to the everyday life of actual people.

Militärgeschichte des Mittelalters
Clauss, Martin

Martin Clauss is a professor of Medieval History at the University of Chemnitz. His expertise in medieval warfare is attested by various books, “Militärgeschichte des Mittelalters” being one of his latest (2020), published as part of the C.H.Beck Wissen series.

Military Equipment in the Byzantine Manuscript of Skylitzes
Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Ada

The extensive article studies the military equipment visible in the illustrations of the Madrid Skylitzes.

Military saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200
White, Monica

Military saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200 examines the changes which  cults of Byzantine military saints underwent in Rus.

Muslim Expansion and Byzantine Collapse in North Africa
Kaegi, Walter E.

Kaegis attempts to reexamine materials in the light of new discoveries about seventh-century Byzantium.

Narratologie und Geschichte. Eine Analyse schottischer Historiografie am Beispiel des »Scotichronicon« und des »Bruce«
Hachgenei, Davina

Davina Hachgenei implements a narratological method for the analysis of the two Late Medieval Scottish sources “Scotichronicon” and the “Bruce”

Pace. Musik zwischen Krieg und Frieden
Hanheide, Stefan

In this companion, Stefan Hanheide, Professor for Historical Musicology at Osnabrück University, presents forty compositions related to the topic of peace

Papal Bull. Print, Politics and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome
Meserve, Margaret

This book analyses the early use of the printing press in papal political communication, decades before the protestant reformation. In doing so, it explores a huge archive of incunabula and challenges many conventional narratives of the media history of late medieval warfare.

Pillages, tributs, captifs. Prédation et sociétés de l’Antiquité tardive au haut Moyen Âge.
Keller, Rodolphe and Sarti, Laury

This edited volume deals with predation and its consequences and illustrates that plundering was a significant element of warfare during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

Princeps omni laude maior. A History of Stephen the Great
Gorovei Ștefan S. and Székely, Maria Magdalena

Ștefan S. Gorovei and Maria Magdalena Székely are both professors at the Faculty of History at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania.

Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia
Gillis, Bryan

Bryan  Gillis explores the use of what he labels “horror rhetoric” by West-Francian authors in response to the misery befalling the kingdom from the 880s until the 920s

Renaissance France at War: Armies, Cultures and Society, c.1480–1560.
Potter, David

Renaissance France at War is one of his most comprehensive works, seeking to cover 80 years of warfare in a single volume. Potter focuses mainly on the practical elements of warfare but also addresses art and literature

Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History, and Identity, 1450-1600
Harari, Yuval N.

Harari’s Renaissance Military Memoirs undertakes a systematic study of a unique corpus of military texts. This book addresses the origin, nature, and function of this literary genre and compares historical texts to their modern counterparts.

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