1: Maurice Keen: Introduction
Part I: Phases of Medieval Warfare
2: Timothy Reuter: Carolingian and Ottonian Warfare
3: H. B. Clark: The Vikings
4: John Gillingham: An Age of Expansion c.1020-1204
5: Peter Edbury: Warfare in the Latin East
6: Norman Housely: European Warfare, c.1200-1320
7: Clifford J. Rogers: The Age of the Hundred Years War
Part II: The Arts of Warfare
8: Richard L. C. Jones: Fortifications and Sieges in Western
Europe, 800-1450
9: Andrew Ayton: Arms, Armour and Horses
10: Michael Mallett: Mercenaries
11: Felipe Fernández-Armesto: Naval Warfare in the Viking Age,
c.1100-1500
12: Christopher Allmand: War and the Non-Combatant in the Middle
Ages
13: Maurice Keen: The Changing Scene: Guns, Gunpowder, and
Permanent Armies
Further Reading, Chronology, Index
Maurice Keen is Tutor in Medieval History, and
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University. He lives in the
United Kingdom.
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