The Medieval City Under Siege

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Ivy A. Corfis, Michael Wolfe
Boydell & Brewer, 1999 - 302 من الصفحات
[This] substantial book...makes an important and stimulating contribution. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Warfare in Europe in the middle ages underwent a marked change of emphasis as urban life expanded. The concentration of wealth represented by a city was a valuable objective, and the static nature of a siege was infinitely preferable to the uncertainties of campaign. As the incidence of sieges increased, so pitched battles declined. The studies in this book, intended for specialists as well as general readers, follow the history of siege warfare, exploringthe urban milieu within which it developed, and the evolution of siege technology up to the advent of gunpowder weaponry. The logistics of specific sieges, from the Crusader kingdoms in the Near East and the Byzantine Empire as well as medieval Europe, are also considered, with evidence from literature, engineering, architecture and cliometrics.
IVY CORFIS is professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; MICHAEL WOLFE is professor in the department of history at Penn State University, Altoona.
Contributors: MICHAEL WOLFE, JAMES F. POWERS, MICHAEL TOCH, DENYS PRINGLE, ERIC McGEER, PAUL E. CHEVEDDEN, MICHAEL HARNEY, HEATHER ARDEN, WINTHROP WETHERBEE, KELLY DEVRIES, MICHAEL MALLETT, BERT S. HALL.

 

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An Introduction
3
The Besieged Town on the LusoHispanic
17
The Medieval German City under Siege
35
Siege Warfare and the Bonnes Villes of France during
49
Town Defences in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
69
Byzantine Siege Warfare in Theory and Practice
123
Prelude to the Middle Ages
131
Siege Warfare in Medieval Hispanic Epic and Romance
177
The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Love in the Roman de la rose
191
Chivalry under Siege in Ricardian Romance
207
The Impact of Gunpowder Weaponry on Siege Warfare in
227
Siegecraft in Late FifteenthCentury Italy
245
Technology and Tactics
257
Onomastic Index
277
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