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This pioneering series moves away from strategies, battles, and chronicle histories in order to provide a home for work that places warfare in broader contexts, and contributes new insights on everyday experiences of conflict and violence. It encourages scholars of the medieval and early modern periods to push at the boundaries of the study of war, and sheds new light on the practicalities that were so critical to its success or failure. It also provides a home for studies of war's cultural and social significance.

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4 results in War and Conflict in Premodern Societies

Holy War in the Baltic and the Battle of Lyndanise 1219
  • Carsten Selch Jensen
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    08 May 2024
    Print publication:
    31 March 2024
  • In June 1219 Danish crusaders fought a vicious battle against local pagan warriors at the place in northern Estonia where Tallinn now lies. The battle - known then as the Battle of Lyndanise - was a narrow victory for the crusaders and eventually turned out to be a pivotal event in the national histories of both Denmark and Estonia as a milestone in the overall military conquest of the entire region by (mostly) western military powers. The main scope of this book is to present a study of this military conquest of Estonia around 1200 with a special focus on the Scandinavian involvement, enabling us to better understand the intense political, military, and religious changes that came to influence the region and its many people from the early high medieval period onwards.

The Campaign and Battle of Manzikert, 1071
  • Georgios Theotokis
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    08 May 2024
    Print publication:
    31 March 2024
  • The Battle of Manzikert on August 26, 1071 is widely regarded as one of the most significant turning points in medieval history, frequently presented as the culmination of a Turco-Islamic assault upon the Byzantine bulwark of a Christian world struggling for survival. Emperor Romanus IV's campaigns between 1068 and 1071 do, in many ways, represent the empire's fightback against an enemy that for decades had penetrated deep into Asia Minor, its heartland and strategic bulwark. Yet Manzikert was not a disaster. This book examines the geopolitical background and the origins of the campaign that led to the battle, the main protagonists, and their strategies and battle tactics. It also evaluates the primary sources and the enduring legacy of the battle, for both the Greek and Turkish historiography of the twentieth century.

War and Collective Identities in the Middle Ages
  • East, West, and Beyond
  • Edited by Yannis Stouraitis
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    28 December 2023
    Print publication:
    30 April 2023
  • This book uses sociological perspectives to bring together work on war and identity in the Middle Ages relating to a range of peoples and geographical settings from Europe, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia. Focusing on the interrelation between ideological practices and group formation, it examines the role of warfare in the emergence and decline of particular social structures, and changing patterns of collective identification. It contributes to the debate on the longue durée development of the phenomena of ethnicity and nationhood by drawing attention to the impact of war on the evolution of various types of polity and visions of community in the Middle Ages. Its use of non-European as well as European exemplars provides a wealth of fruitful comparative material, shedding new light on the relationship between medieval warfare and high-level identities.

Medieval France at War
  • A Military History of the French Monarchy, 885-1305
  • John France
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    06 April 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2022
  • This book provides an overarching, comprehensive analysis of the French military in the medieval period. The focus is on the armies of the French monarchy and the lands close around them, extending from the Low Countries to Provence. Central themes include recruitment and payment; military organisation; leadership, strategy, and tactics; weapons and arms; chivalry, military culture, and the rise of military professionalism.