John of Salisbury

Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-22663-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 89, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

The English scholar John of Salisbury was a major intellectual of the twelfth century whose contributions to the fields of education, grammar, political theory, and rhetoric are well-known. His significance is amplified further in John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, in which John D. Hosler examines his heretofore overlooked contributions to the ideals and practice of medieval warfare. This book surveys an array of military topics present within John’s extant corpus, including generalship, strategy, tactics, logistics, military organization, and training; it also collates John’s military lexicon and charts the influence of classical texts upon his conceptualization of war. John of Salisbury, it argues, deserves inclusion in the roll-call of military theoreticians and writers of pre-Reformation Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hosler, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements … ix
Abbreviations … xi

Introduction … 1
1. John’s Military Lexicon … 11
2. The Soldiers … 39
3. Organization and Logistics … 63
4. Armies at War … 87
5. The Language of War … 119
6. Contemporary Military Accounts … 149
Conclusion … 173

Index

Über Autor(innen)

John D. Hosler, Ph.D. (2005), University of Delaware, is Associate Professor of British History at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. Specializing in medieval French and English warfare, he is the author of Henry II: A Medieval Soldier at War, 1147-1189 (Brill, 2007).