Essays on Medieval Military History : Strategy, Military Revolutions and the Hundred Years War (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction. Part 1 Strategy: Edward III and the dialectics of strategy, 1327-1360; The offensive/defensive in medieval strategy; The Vegetian science of warfare in the Middle Ages; Part 2 Military Revolutions: The military revolutions of the Hundred Years War; 'Military revolutions' and 'revolutions in military affairs': a historian's perspective; 'As if a new sun had arisen': England's 14th-century RMA; The efficacy of the medieval longbow: a reply to Kelly DeVries. Part 3 The Hundred Years War: By fire and the sword: bellum hostile and 'civilians' in the Hundred Years War; A continuation of the Manuel d'histoire de Philippe IV for the years 1328-39; An unknown news bulletin from the siege of Tournai in 1340; The Bergerac campaign (1345) and the generalship of Henry of Lancaster; The Scottish invasion of 1346; Three new accounts of the Neville's Cross campaign (with M.C. Buck); Sir Thomas Dagworth in Brittany, 1346-7: Restellou and La Roche Derrien; The Anglo-French peace negotiations of 1354-1360 reconsidered; Addenda and corrigenda; Index