Table of Contents

Introduction: the military revolution from a medieval perspective, Andrew Ayton, J.L. Price. The conqueror's footprints in Domesday Book, J.J.N. Palmer; towns, mottes and ring-works of the conquest, Barbara English; alms for the Holy land - the English Templars and their patrons, John Walker; knights, esquires and military service - the evidence of the Armorial cases before the Court of Chivalry, Andrew Ayton;; town defences in medieval England and Wales, D.M. Palliser; war and peace in the Works of Erasmus - a medieval perspective, Peter Heath; Josse Clichtove and the Just War, Howell A. Lloyd; "wise and experimented" - Sir William Pelham, Elizabethan soldier and landlord, c.1560-87, R.W. Ambler; a state dedicated to war? the Dutch Republic in the 17th century, J.L. Price.