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Title: Soldiers' Lives Through History: The Middle Ages
Title: Clifford J. Rogers
Publisher: Greenwood Press (April 2007)
"This work provides a valuable survey of many of the central questions in the investigation of the life of the soldier during the Middle Ages. It will be a useful and highly readable textbook for undergraduate courses in military history and a companion volume for medieval and Western civilization courses."--Speculum, A Journal of Medieval Studies
The most dangerous arms in the world are those of horse and lance, because there is no means of stopping them," wrote a 15th-century commander, Jean de Bueil. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the 15th century, the men (and a few women in disguise) who reported for military service or who led other men, scouted and skirmished, plundered and burned. If they did not slaughter the peasants they met, they took them prisoner to be sold as slaves or ransomed at heavy cost. It was a brutal time. Rogers illuminates the history of medieval soldiers in wartime and in peacetime, describing the lives of those who attacked, and those who defended, the fortified castles, towns, and lands of Europe and beyond in the Middle Age. Written for students and anyone interested in history of the Middle Ages, Soldiers' Lives through History-The Middle Ages includes extensive quotations from the primary sources of the period, including the soldiers' own words.
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Price: $64.43 CAD (not including shipping & handling, price may vary)
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Hardcover - 336 pp., colour and B&W illustrations |