Format:
1 online resource (427 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789047432616
Series Statement:
History of Warfare Ser. v.47
Content:
Mercenaries have always had a poor press. Theirs is one of the world's oldest professions, but the very word has profoundly negative connotations of infidelity and ruthlessness. But if they were like this, were they so different from soldiers?.
Content:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- William Marshal and the Mercenariat (David Crouch) -- Revisiting Mercenaries under Henry Fitz Empress, 1167-1188 (John D. Hosler) -- Medieval Mercenaries: Methodology, Defi nitions, and Problems (Kelly DeVries) -- Les Mercenaires dans les Campagnes Napolitaines de Louis le Grand, Roi de Hongrie, 1347-1350 (Guido Guerri dall'Oro) -- The Da Varano Lords of Camerino as Condottiere Princes (John E. Law) -- 'Beneath the Battle'? Miners and Engineers as 'Mercenaries' in the Holy Land (XII-XIII siècles) (Nicolas Prouteau) -- Soldiers of Fortune in the Fleets of Charles I of Anjou, King of Sicily, ca. 1265-85 (John H. Pryor) -- Household Men, Mercenaries and Vikings in Anglo-Saxon England (Richard Abels) -- Merovingian Mercenaries and Paid Soldiers in Imperial Perspective (Bernard S. Bachrach) -- The Early Hungarians as Mercenaries 860-955 (Charles R. Bowlus) -- 'Warriors Fit for a Prince': Welsh Troops in Angevin Service, 1154-1216 (I.W. Rowlands) -- Urban Military Forces of England and Germany c. 1240-c. 1315, a Comparison (David S. Bachrach) -- Mercenaries, Mamluks and Militia: Towards a Cross-cultural Typology of Military Service (Stephen Morillo) -- The Anglo-Flemish Treaties and Flemish Soldiers in England 1101-1163 (Eljas Oksanen) -- The Origin of Money-Fiefs in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Alan V. Murray) -- Mercenaries and Paid Men in Gilbert of Mons (Laura Napran) -- The Fourteenth Century Soldier-More Chaucer's Knight or Medieval Career? (Adrian R. Bell) -- What does a Mercenary Leave Behind? The Archaeological E vidence for the Estates of Owain Lawgoch (Spencer Gavin Smith) -- The Role of Mercenary Troops in Spain in the Fourteenth Century: the Civil War (Carlos Andrés González Paz) -- The Teutonic Order's Mercenaries during the 'Great War' with Poland-Lithuania (1409-11) (Sven Ekdahl).
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004164475
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004164475
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=468071
