LIST 4: WARFARE IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

 

Primary Sources

 

Keynes, Simon, and Michael Lapidge, Alfred the Great, Asser's Life of Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources. Baltimore:  Penguin, 1983.

 

Byrhtnoth. The Battle of Maldon, A.D. 991. Edited by Donald Scragg. Oxford / Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell in Association with the Manchester Center for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 1991.

 

Secondary Sources

 

Abels, Richard.  Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England.  London:  Longman, 1998.

 

Bachrach, Bernard S.  Charlemagne's Early Campaigns (768-777): A Diplomatic and Military Analysis. Leiden: Brill. 2013.

 

Bachrach, Bernard S.  Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire.  The Middle Ages Series.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

 

Bachrach, Bernard S.  Merovingian Military Organization, 481-751.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1972.

 

Bachrach, Bernard S.  Warfare and Military Organization in Pre-Crusade Europe. Variorum Collected Studies Series 720. Aldershot, Hampshire:  Ashgate Variorum, 2002.

 

Bachrach, David S.  Warfare in Tenth Century Germany, 2012. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2012.

 

Beeler, John H.  Warfare in Feudal Europe, 713-1200.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1971.

 

Bowlus, Charles R. The Battle of Lechfeld and its Aftermath, August 955: The End of the Age of Migrations in the Latin West. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

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Brunning, Sue. The Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe: Experience, Identity, Representation. Rochester, NY:  Boydell, 2019.

 

Evans, Stephen S.  The Lords of Battle:  Image and Reality of the Comitatus in Dark Age Britain.  Rochester, NY:  Boydell, 1997.

 

Halsall, Guy, ed. . Violence and Society in the Early Medieval West. Rochester, NY:  Boydell, 1998.

 

Halsall, Guy. Violence and Society in the Barbarian West.  Warfare and History.  New York:  Routledge 2003.

 

Hill.  John M.  The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000

 

Hollister, C. Warren.  Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions on the Eve of the Norman Invasion.   Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.

 

Read:  1) Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. “William I and the Breton Contingent in the Non-Norman Conquest.”  Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 157-72; 2) Marjorie Chibnall.  “Military Service in Normandy before 1066,” Anglo-Norman Studies 5 (1982): 65-77; and 3) R. Allen Brown.  “The Battle of Hastings.”  Anglo-Norman Studies 3 (1980): 1-21.

     

Read:  1) Leyser, Karl.  “The Battle at the Lech:  A Study in Tenth-Century Warfare.” History 50 (1965): 1-25;  2) Timothy Reuter, “The Imperial Church System of the Ottonian and Salian Rulers:  A Reconsideration.”  Journal of Ecclesiastical History 33 (1982): 347-74; and 3) Heinrich Fichtenau.  Living in the Tenth Century:  Mentalities and Social Orders.  Translated by Patrick Geary.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.  Pp. 381-434.

 

John Peddie.  Alfred: Warrior King.  Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999. 

Pohl. Walter, ed. Kingdoms of the Empire: The Integration of Barbarians in Late Antiquity. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

Read: 1) Timothy Reuter "The End of Carolingian Military Expansion." In Charlemagne’s Heir: New Perspectives on the Reign of Louis the Pious (814-840). Edited by Peter Godman and Roger Collins Oxford / New York: Clarendon Press, 1990. 391-405; 2) Reuter. "Plunder and Tribute in the Carolingian Empire." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., 35 (1985): 75-93.

 

Read: 1) Timothy Reuter, "The Imperial Church System of the Ottonian and Salian Rulers: A Reconsideration." Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 33 (1982): 347-74; and 2) Reuter. "Carolingian and Ottonian Warfare." In Medieval Warfare: A History. Edited by Maurice Keen. Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 13-35; and 3).Heinrich Fichtenau. Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders. Translated by Patrick Geary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. 381-434.

 

Read:   1) E. A. Thompson.  “Early Germanic Warfare.”  Past & Present 14 (1958): 2-31; 2) J.-M. Wallace-Haddrill.  “Gothia and Romania,” in The Long-Haired Kings.  1962, rpt. Toronto:  University of Toronto Press for the Medieval Academy, 1982.  Pp. 25-48.

Udwin, Victor Morris. Between Two Armies: The Place of the Duel in Epic Culture. Davis Medieval Texts and Studies 10. Leiden  Brill, 1999.

 Read: 1) Jean François Verbruggen. "L’Armée et la stratégie de Charlemagne."  In Karl der Grosse, 4 vols., 3rd ed. Düsseldorf: L. Schwann Verlag, 1967. 1:420-36; 2) Simon Coupland, "Carolingian Arms and Armor." Viator 21 (1990): 29-50; and 3) Katherine Fisher Drew, "The Carolingian Military Frontier in Italy." Traditio 20 (1964): 437-47.

 Read:  1) Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths.  Translated by Thomas J. Dunlap.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1988.  Pp. 117-171; and 2)  Bernard S. Bachrach.  “Some Observations on the Goths at War.”  Francia 19 (1992): 205-14.