History 5341: Medieval Italy

John Howe

List 7:  Warfare in Italy

General Bibliography

Bradbury, Jim.  The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare.  London / New York:  Routledge, 2004.

Crosby, Everett Uberto. War in the Middle Ages: A Bibliographic Guide. Garland Medieval Bibliographies, 21. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 2224.  New York: Garland, 2000.

The De Re Militari website offers an index of its sources for warfare in high medieval Italy (alas, not updated after a malware attack)

DeVries, Kelly.  A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology. History of Warfare, 8.  Leiden:  Brill, 2002.

DeVries, Kelly. A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology:  Update 2003-2006. History of Warfare 46. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

Rogers, Clifford J. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Technology, 3 vols.   Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2010.

Selected Studies

Backman, Clifford R.  The Decline and Fall of Medieval Sicily: Politics, Religion, and Economy in the Reign of Frederick III, 1296‑1337. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Bayley, C. C., ed.  War and Society in Renaissance Florence:  The “De Militia” of Leonardo Bruni. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961.

Berwinkel, Holger.  Verwusten und Belagern:  Friedrich Barbarossas Krieg gegen Mailand (1158-1162).  Bibliothek des Deutschen historischen Instituts im Rom 114.  Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2007.

Caferro, William. John Hawkwood:  An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Caferro, William.  Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena.  Baltimore:  John Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Chastel, Andrė.  The Sack of Rome, 1527.  Princeton, NJ:  Princeton University Press, 1983.

Christine de Pisan, The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry. Edited by Sumner Willard and Charity Cannon Willard. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Read:  1) Cowdrey, H.E.J., “Pope Gregory VII and the Bearing of Arms.” In Montjoie:  Studies in Crusade History in Honour of Hans Eberhard Mayer.  Edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and Rudolf Hiestand. Brookfield, VT: Variorum, 1997; and 2) Robinson, Ian Stuart, “Gregory VII and the Soldiers of Christ.” History 58 (1973): 169-92.

Deiss, Joseph Jay. Captains of Fortune:  Profiles of Six Italian Condottieri.  New York:  Crowell, 1966.
 

Read:  1) John E. Dotson  “Fleet Operations in the First Genoese-Venetian War, 1264-1266,” Viator 30 (1999), 165-80; and 2) John R. Dotson, "Foundations of Venetian Naval Strategy from Pietro II Orseolo to the Battle of Zoncho, 1000-1500." Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 32 (2001): 113-25.

Dunbabin, Jean.  Charles I of Anjou:  Power, Kingship, and State-Making in Thirteenth Century Europe.  London/NY:  Longman, 1998.

Fiore dei Liberi, Fior de Battaglia. Translated by Brian R. Price, as Fiore dei Liberi's Sword in Two Hands: A Full-Color Training Guide for Medieval Longsword Based on Fiore dei Liberi's Fior di Battaglia. Union City: Chivalry Bookshelf, 2007.

Hale, John R.  War and Society in Renaissance Europe.  Rev. ed., Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998.

________.  Renaissance Fortification: Art or Engineering.  London:  Thames & Hudson, 1977.           

Hay, David J.  The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115.  Manchester:  Manchester University Press, 2008.

Keen, Maurice H.  The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965.

Lane, Frederic Chapin.  Venetian Ships and Shipbuilders of the Renaissance.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1934.

Mallett, Michael.  Mercenaries and Their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy.  London: Bodley Head, 1974.

Mallett, Michael.   The Military Organization of a Renaissance State:  Venice c. 1400-1617. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. 

Masson, Christophe.  Des guerres en Italie avant les guerres d’Italie: Les entreprises militaires françaises dans la péninsule à l’époque du grand schisme d’Occident. Collection de l’École française de Rome  495. Rome: École française de Rome, 2014.

Pepper, Simon, and Nicholas Adams.  Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Scaglione, Aldo.  Knights at Court:  Courtliness, Chivalry and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Read:  1) Aldo A. Settia,  “L’Europeo aggressore. Tecniche militari in Occidente alla vigilia della prima crociata,” Studi storici, 38 (1997): 309-22; and 2) Aldo A. Settia, “Infantry and Cavalry in Lombardy (11th-12th Centuries),” Journal of Military History 6 (2008): 58-78.

Read:  1) Daniel P. Waley,  “Papal Armies in the Thirteenth Century.” The English Historical Review 72 (1957): 1-30; 2) Daniel P. Waley, “The Army of the Florentine Republic from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century.”  Florentine Studies:  Politics and Society in Renaissance Florence.  Edited by Nicolai Rubenstein.  Evanston:  Northwestern University Press, 1968.  Pp. 70-108;  and 3) Daniel P. Waley, “Condotte and Condottieri in the Thirteenth Century.”  Proceedings of the British Academy 61 (1975): 337-71.