List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1: The Peerage
2: The Knights
3: The Men-at-Arms
4: The Archers
5: Other kinds of soldiers
6: Where did soldiers come from?
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Adrian R. Bell is Chair in the History of Finance at the ICMA
Centre, University of Reading. He completed his PhD at the
University of Reading (2002) and is the author of The Soldier in
Later Medieval England (2004). Anne Curry is Dean of the Faculty of
Humanities at the University of Southampton. She was President of
the Historical Association between 2008 and 2011, and has also been
a Vice-president of the Royal Historical Society and editor of
the
Journal of Medieval History. Andy King is a Research Fellow in
History at the University of Southampton. He completed his PhD at
the University of Durham (2001) and edited Sir Thomas Gray:
Scalacronica (1272-1363),
Surtees Society ccix (2005). He has also written articles on
various aspects of late medieval warfare, the Anglo-Scottish
Marches, chronicles and castles, and has co-edited two collections
of essays on England and Scotland in the later Middle Ages. David
Simpkin is Honorary Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre, University
of Reading. He completed his PhD at the University of Hull (2007)
and is the author of The English Aristocracy at War, from the Welsh
Wars of Edward I to the Battle
of Bannockburn (2008). He has also written various articles and
co-edited two collections of essays on themes relating to later
medieval warfare and the English gentry. He was winner of the
Verbruggen Prize in
2011.
The authors, together and separately, bring an enormous amount of
expertise to bear and are all well represented in the impressive
and useful bibliography ... My ambling through some of the areas
discussed in this book does not do justice to its vast amount of
factual information.
*Livia Visser-Fuchs*
The book affords an excellent example of today's new kind of
military history, its methodology turning not so much on the study
of battles and campaigns as on the detailed analysis of the
structure and composition of armies, the group dynamics within them
and the social networks and hierarchies that underpinned them, all
with a close bearing on the armies effectiveness in the field ...
This book is as enjoyable as it is instructive.
*Nigel Saul, History Today*
A brilliant piece of social and military history ... Essential.
*CHOICE*
an outstanding work of original research ... Few recent works have
brought us so close to the lives of the men who had to bear the
impossible burden of making a King of England Duke of Normandy and
King of France.
*Jonathan Sumption, English Historical Review*
Without doubt ... this book represents a major contribution to our
understanding of how the English waged war in the later Middle
Ages. It also adds immensely to our picture of late medieval
English society and culture.
*David Grummitt, History*
a very fine and thought-provoking study that is a must-read for any
student of military history in the later Middle Ages ... a rich
source of information
*Douglas Biggs, American Historical Review*
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