LIST
#6: FORTRESSES AND SIEGES
Bradbury, Jim.
The Medieval Siege. Woodbridge,
Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 1992.
Brown, Reginald Allen. English
Castles. 3rd revised ed.
London: Boydell, 2006.
Read:
1) Bur, Michel. “The Social
Influence of the Motte-and-Bailey Castle.”
Scientific American 231 (1983), 132-40;
Corfis, Ivy A., and Michael Wolfe, eds.
The Medieval City under Siege.
Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, BY:
Boydell & Brewer. 1995.
Duffy, Christopher.
Siege Warfare:
The Fortress in the Early Modern World.
London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1969.
Edwards, Robert.
The Fortifications of Armenian Cilicia.
Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton
Oaks Institute, 1987.
Gies,
Joseph and Frances.
Life in a Medieval Castle.
New York: Harper Colophon
Books, 1979. [UL, Howe]
Hill,
Donald. “Siege-Craft from the Sixth
to the Tenth Century.” In War,
Technology and Society in the Middle East, ed. V. J. Parry and M. E. Yapp.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.
Pp. 32-43
Johnson, Anne.
Roman Forts of the First and Second
Century AD in Britain and the German Provinces.
New York: St. Martin’s,
1983.
Johnson, Stephen.
Late Roman Fortifications.
Totowa NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1983.
Kaufmann, J.E., and H. W. Kaufmann.
Castle to Fortress: Medieval to Post Roman Fortifications in the Lands of the
Former Roman Empire. Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Military, 2019.
Kern,
Paul P.
Ancient Siege Warfare.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Lawrence, T. E. [of Arabia]. Crusader
Castles [1936]. Edited by
Denys Pringle. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1988.
[Pringle’s introduction and lengthy footnotes make this a new work.]
Marshall, Christopher. “Castles and
Strongpoints” and “Sieges.”
Warfare in the Latin East.
Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1992. Pp. 93-144, 210-56.
Petersen, Leif Inge Ree. Siege Warfare
and Military Organization in the Successor States (400-800 AD): Byzantium, the
West and Islam. History of Warfare 91. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
Petrikovits. H. von.
“Fortifications in the North-Western Roman Empire from the third to the Fifth
Centuries A.D.” Journal of Roman Studies,
61 (1971), 178-218.
Pounds, N. J. G. The Medieval
Castles in England and Wales:
A Political and Social History.
New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1991.
Purton, Peter. A History of the Early Medieval Siege, c.450-1220. Rochester NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2009.
Purton, Peter.
The Medieval Military Engineer: From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century.
Rochester NY: Boydell 1018.
Rogers, R.
Latin Siege Warfare in the Twelfth
Century. Oxford Historical
Monographs. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1992.
Read:
1) arver, W. T. S. “The Traction
Trebuchet: A Reconstruction of an
Early Medieval Siege Engine.” Technology
and Culture, 36 (1995)136-68; and 2) Cheveddin, Paul E., Zvi Schiller,
Samuel R. Gilbert, and Donald J. Kagay.
“The Traction Trebuchet: A
Triumph of Four Civilizations.”
Viator 31 (2000): 433-86.
Tracy, James D., ed.
City Walls:
The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective.
Studies in Comparative Early Modern History.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
Warner, Philip.
The Medieval Castle:
Life in a Fortress in Peace and
War.
New York: Taplinger Publ.
Co., 1971.
Watson, Bruce Allen.
Sieges:
A Comparative Study. London:
Praeger, 1993.
Wheatley, Abigail. The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England, York
Medieval Series. Rochester, NY:
Boydell 2004