Warfare in the Middle Ages
Government and Warfare
Essay and Seminar Questions
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What does the evolution of military tactics reveal about wider social and political changes in medieval Europe?
- How did late medieval warfare challenge traditional chivalric values?
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How did religious beliefs shape attitudes towards warfare?
Documents
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Essential Reading
e-resources
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook has sections on,, and.
- One of England's great castles is only 15 minutes byfrom the University.
- . The website includes a series of resources (primary sources, articles, and essays) relating to.
- The Myths of Medieval Warfare, Sean McGlynn
- The. New online edition with translation.
- ''.In Our Time. BBC Radio programme, Thursday 16 September 2004.
Further Reading
Warfare and Chivalry
Bachrach, D.S., & Bachrach, B.S., 'Writing the History of Warfare in the Global Middle Ages' inWarfare in the Global Middle Ages(Routledge, 2025)
Barber, Richard,The Knight and Chivalry(2000)
Contamine, Philippe,War in the Middle Ages, trans. Michael Jones (Oxford, 1984)
Hale, J.R.,War and Society in Renaissance Europe(Stroud, 1998)
Keen, Maurice, (ed.),Medieval Warfare: A History(Oxford, 1999)
Keen, Maurice, Chivalry (Yale, 1984)
Mallett, Michael,Mercenaries and their Masters(London, 1974)
Nicholson, Helen,(Houndmills, 2004)
Taylor, Craig,(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
The Hundred Years' War
Anonymous,A Parisian Journal, 1405-1449, trans. Janet Shirley (Oxford, 1968)
Allmand, Christopher,The Hundred Years' War(Cambridge, 1988)
Allmand, Christopher,Society at War: The Experience of England and France During the Hundred Years War(Edinburgh, 1973)
Curry, Anne,The Hundred Years War(Basingstoke, 2003) []
Curry, Anne and Michael Hughes (eds),(Boydell, 1994)
Dodd, Gwylim,,History Today, 65:10 (2015)
Froissart, Jean,Chronicles, ed. and trans. John Jolliffe (Harmondsworth, 1978) [The most important contemporary history of the Hundred Years' War] [, or]
Ormrod, W.M.,The Reign of Edward III(New Haven, 1990)
Saul, Nigel (ed.),The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England(Oxford, 1997)