The Cambridge History of War: Volume 2, War and the Medieval World

An expert account of war in the medieval period, demonstrating how war is ubiquitous yet ever changing across space and time.

Anne Curry (Edited by), David A. Graff (Author)

9780521877152, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 October 2020

762 pages, 22 b/w illus. 16 maps
23.6 x 16.2 x 4 cm, 1.35 kg

'… an excellent volume … The essays … provide extensive references that make them good starting points for further reading for interested historians who are non-specialists, especially graduate students and teachers; the select bibliography is also useful in this regard.' Bradley Phillis, Journal of Chinese Military History

Volume II of The Cambridge History of War covers what in Europe is commonly called 'the Middle Ages'. It includes all of the well-known themes of European warfare, from the migrations of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings through the Reconquista, the Crusades and the age of chivalry, to the development of state-controlled gunpowder-wielding armies and the urban militias of the later middle ages; yet its scope is world-wide, ranging across Eurasia and the Americas to trace the interregional connections formed by the great Arab conquests and the expansion of Islam, the migrations of horse nomads such as the Avars and the Turks, the formation of the vast Mongol Empire, and the spread of new technologies – including gunpowder and the earliest firearms – by land and sea.

List of illustrations
List of maps
Notes on contributors
Introduction to volume II Anne Curry and David A. Graff
Part I. Foundations, c. 600 to 1000 CE
1. The Early Islamic Empire and the Introduction of Military Slavery Matthew S. Gordon
2. The Western European Kingdoms, 600-1000 Guy Halsall
3. The Scandinavian World Anthony Perron
4. Byzantium to the Twelfth Century John Haldon
5. The Slavs, Avars and Hungarians Martyn Rady
6. The Turks and the Other Peoples of the Eurasian Steppes, to 1175 Étienne de la Vaissière
7. China: The Tang, 600–900 David A. Graff
8. Japan to 1200 Karl Friday
Part II. Interactions, c. 1000–1300 CE
9. Europe 1000–1300 David Crouch
10. Crusaders and Settlers in the East 1096–1291: Christian Attack, Muslim Response John France
11. The Mongol Empire Roman Hautala
12. China 900–1400 Peter Lorge
Part III. Nations and Formations, c. 1300–1500 CE
13. Western Europe 1300–1500 Anne Curry
14. Warfare and Italian states, 1300–1500 William Caferro
15. The Reconquest and the Spanish monarchies Donald J. Kagay
16. The Byzantine Empire and the Balkans, 1204–1453 Mark C. Bartusis
17. Ottoman Expansion and Military Power, 1300–1453 Gábor Ágoston
18. India, c.1200 – c. 1500 Phillip B. Wagoner
19. Southeast Asia, 1300–1540 CE Michael W. Charney
20. Japan 1200–1550 Thomas D. Conlan
21. The Americas Rubén G. Mendoza
Part IV. Comparisons, Cross-Cultural Analysis
22. Justifications, Theories and Customs of War Stephen Morillo
23. Technologies: Land Technologies Kelly DeVries and Technologies: Maritime Technologies John H. Pryor
Select bibliography
Index

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW], Medieval history [HBLC1]