Routledge Handbook of Medieval Military Strategy (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction??Part I: Europe??1. Charlemagne’s Long-Term Strategic Goal: Obtaining the Imperial Title in the West? 2. Anglo-Saxon and Viking Military Strategies? 3. Grand Strategy of the Ottonian Empire, 919-973? 4. Strategy in the High Middle Ages: Anglo-Normans, Capetians and Plantagenets? 5. Insurgency: Unconventional Strategy in the West, 500-1300? 6. The Continuous Crusade in Northeast Europe: Warfare in Livonia, Estonia, Prussia and Lithuania, 1198-1411? 7. Military Professionalization and Strategy in Late Medieval England? 8. Beyond the Town Walls: Economy and the Florentine Forces, 1336-1392? 9. The Origins of National Navies in the West? 10. Strategy and Military Revolutions??Part II: The Mediterranean??11. Strategy and Grand Strategy: Resources, Geopolitics and Ideology in the East Roman/Byzantine Empire? 12. Maurice and His Legacy:?Strategike in the Byzantine Military Manuals? 13. The Fatimids and Syria? 14. The Crusades: Western Armies and Eastern Strategies? 15. The Rule of the Temple and the Military-Religious Orders? 16. Raiding as a Strategy in Medieval Georgia? 17. Spain’s Leading Thirteenth-Century Law Code and (Incidental) Military Treatise Las Siete Partidas??18. Ottomans: Mehmed the Conqueror??Part III: Asia and Africa??19. Beyond and Behind the Wall: Siege Warfare of Sui-Tang China, 600-900? 20. China in the Gunpowder Age, Song to Ming Dynasties? 21. Strategy and Warfare in Ancient and Medieval Japan? 22. Strategies in Post-Gupta India? 23. Strategy of the Delhi Sultanate, 1206-1526? 24. Strategy and the Mughal Empire? 25. Strategy in the Mongol Way of War? 26. Almoravid Tactics and Strategy? 27. “The Kingdom of Ethiopia Shall Live Forever”: Military Strategies in Ethiopia (13^th-16^th Centuries)? 28. Military Strategies in Pre-17^th Century West Africa? 29. The Military-Political Strategy of the Medieval Kingdom of Kongo??Part IV: Western Hemisphere??30. The Excan tlatoloyan and Military Strategies for Mesoamerican Control in the Late Post-Classic Period? 31. Late Andean Warfare: Evolving Military Sophistication under the Inka? 32. Medieval Strategy: Conclusions and New Directions