The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84383-674-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 244 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Warfare in History

Essays throwing fresh light on what it was like to be a medieval soldier, drawing on archival research.

The "long" fourteenth century saw England fighting wars on a number of diverse fronts - not just abroad, in the Hundred Years War, but closer to home. But while tactics, battles, and logistics have been frequently discussed, the actual experience of being a soldier has been less often studied. Via a careful re-evaluation of original sources, and the use of innovative methodological techniques such as statistical analysis and the use of relational databases, the essays here bring new insights to bear on soldiers, both as individuals and as groups. Topics addressed include military service and the dynamics of recruitment; the social composition of the armies; the question of whether soldiers saw their role as a "profession"; and the experience of prisoners of war.

Contributors: Andrew Ayton, David Simpkin, Andrew Spencer, David Bachrach, Iain MacInnes, Adam Chapman, Michael Jones, Guilhem Pepin, Remy Ambuhl, Adrian R. Bell

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, Adrian R

Curry, Anne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chapman, Adam

Bell, Adrian R

Ayton, Andrew

Spencer, Andrew

Bachrach, David S.

Simpkin, David

Pepin, Guilhem

MacInnes, Iain A.

Jones, Michael

Ambühl, Rémy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Military Service and the Dynamics of Recruitment in Fourteenth-Century England - Dr Andrew Ayton
Total War in the Middle Ages?: The Contribution of English Landed Society to the Wars of Edward I and Edward II - David Simpkin
A Warlike People? Gentry Enthusiasm for Edward I's Scottish Campaigns, 1296-1307 - Andrew Spencer
Edward I's Centurions: Professional Soldiers in an Era of Militia Armies - David S. Bachrach
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Bruce? Balliol Scots and 'English Scots' during the second Scottish War of Independence - Iain A. MacInnes
Rebels, Uchelwyr and Parvenus: Welsh Knights in the Fourteenth Century - Adam Chapman
Breton Soldiers from the Battle of the Thirty [26 March 1351] to Nicopolis [25 September 1396] - Michael Jones
Towards a Rehabilitation of Froissart's Credibility: the non fictitious Bascot de Mauléon - Guilhem Pepin
The English Reversal of Fortunes in the 1370s and the Experience of Prisoners of War - Remy Ambuhl
The Soldier, 'hadde he riden, no man ferre' - Adrian R. Bell

Über Autor(innen)

Ambühl, Rémy
RÉMY AMBÜHL is Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Southampton, UK.

Chapman, Adam
ADAM CHAPMAN, General Editor, Victoria County History, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Bachrach, David S.
David S. Bachrach is a professor of medieval history at the University of New Hampshire. His research interests include the administrative and military history of the Carolingian Empire as well as the medieval German and English kingdoms.

Curry, Anne
Anne Curry is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Southampton, and author of many works on the Hundred Years War, particularly on the battle of Agincourt. She also edited the 1422-53 section of the Parliament Rolls of Medieval England.

Spencer, Andrew
Andrew M. Spencer is a Senior Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Associate Lecturer of the University of Cambridge. He is a historian of politics and the constitution of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and has written extensively on the constitutional, political, military and social role of the nobility in particular.