Routledge Handbook of Medieval Military Strategy

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-32506-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 898 g

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive and global analysis of medieval military strategy, covering the period from the sixth to the seventeenth century.

Challenging the widely held notion in modern strategic studies that medieval strategy was non-existent, the Handbook brings together leading scholars to explore a range of literatures, campaigns, laws, and contexts that highlight medieval warfare’s multifaceted contours. The scope of the work is ambitious, with over 30 chapters dedicated to analyzing strategy across six continents. From Charlemagne to Henry V and Scandinavia to Florence; southbound to Morocco then across the Sahara to Kongo; past the Adriatic to Byzantium and Georgia and the Crusades and Egypt; further still into Indian and Chinese dynasties and Japan; and finally, to Central and South America—this Handbook provides ready access to military strategy across the medieval world stage. In the process, it fills a significant gap in the history of strategy and serves to connect the ancient world with the modern, demonstrating that—whatever the period—military leaders have consistently plied warfare in the pursuit of greater ends.

This Handbook will be of much interest to researchers and students of military strategy, medieval military history, and strategic studies in general.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hosler, John D

Franke, Daniel P

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: Europe  1. Charlemagne’s Long-Term Strategic Goal: Obtaining the Imperial Title in the West  2. Anglo-Saxon and Viking Military Strategies  3. Grand Strategy of the Ottonian Empire, 919-973  4. Strategy in the High Middle Ages: Anglo-Normans, Capetians and Plantagenets  5. Insurgency: Unconventional Strategy in the West, 500-1300  6. The Continuous Crusade in Northeast Europe: Warfare in Livonia, Estonia, Prussia and Lithuania, 1198-1411  7. Military Professionalization and Strategy in Late Medieval England  8. Beyond the Town Walls: Economy and the Florentine Forces, 1336-1392  9. The Origins of National Navies in the West  10. Strategy and Military Revolutions  Part II: The Mediterranean  11. Strategy and Grand Strategy: Resources, Geopolitics and Ideology in the East Roman/Byzantine Empire  12. Maurice and His Legacy: Strategike in the Byzantine Military Manuals  13. The Fatimids and Syria  14. The Crusades: Western Armies and Eastern Strategies  15. The Rule of the Temple and the Military-Religious Orders  16. Raiding as a Strategy in Medieval Georgia  17. Spain’s Leading Thirteenth-Century Law Code and (Incidental) Military Treatise Las Siete Partidas  18. Ottomans: Mehmed the Conqueror  Part III: Asia and Africa  19. Beyond and Behind the Wall: Siege Warfare of Sui-Tang China, 600-900  20. China in the Gunpowder Age, Song to Ming Dynasties  21. Strategy and Warfare in Ancient and Medieval Japan  22. Strategies in Post-Gupta India  23. Strategy of the Delhi Sultanate, 1206-1526  24. Strategy and the Mughal Empire  25. Strategy in the Mongol Way of War  26. Almoravid Tactics and Strategy  27. “The Kingdom of Ethiopia Shall Live Forever”: Military Strategies in Ethiopia (13th-16th Centuries)  28. Military Strategies in Pre-17th Century West Africa  29. The Military-Political Strategy of the Medieval Kingdom of Kongo  Part IV: Western Hemisphere  30. The Excan tlatoloyan and Military Strategies for Mesoamerican Control in the Late Post-Classic Period  31. Late Andean Warfare: Evolving Military Sophistication under the Inka  32. Medieval Strategy: Conclusions and New Directions

Über Autor(innen)

John D. Hosler is a Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College. He is the author, most recently, of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace (Yale UP), and is the editor of Seven Myths of Military History (Hackett).

Daniel P. Franke is an Associate Professor of History at Richard Bland College of William & Mary in Petersburg, Virginia. He specializes in the military history of Germany and England and is currently completing a study of Frederick Barbarossa as a military commander.