Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Did Henry II Have a Policy Towards the Earls?
- The Career of Godfrey of Crowcombe: Household Knight of King John and Steward of King Henry III
- Under-Sheriffs, The State and Local Society c.1300–1340: A Preliminary Survey
- Revisiting Norham, May–June 1291
- Treason, Feud and the Growth of State Violence: Edward I and the ‘War of the Earl of Carrick’, 1306–7
- The Commendatio Lamentabilis for Edward I and Plantagenet Kingship
- Historians, Aristocrats and Plantagenet Ireland, 1200–1360
- War and Peace: A Knight's Tale. The Ethics of War in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica
- The King's Secrets: Richard de Bury and the Monarchy of Edward III
- Budgeting at the Medieval Exchequer
- Recent Scholarship on Crusading and Medieval Warfare, 1095–1291: Convergence and Divergence
- The Military Ordinances of Henry V: Texts and Contexts
- Chivalry and English Kingship in the Later Middle Ages
- Cloth of Gold and Gold Thread: Luxury Imports to England in the Fourteenth Century
- Bibliography of the Writings of Michael Prestwich
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoriad
Recent Scholarship on Crusading and Medieval Warfare, 1095–1291: Convergence and Divergence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Did Henry II Have a Policy Towards the Earls?
- The Career of Godfrey of Crowcombe: Household Knight of King John and Steward of King Henry III
- Under-Sheriffs, The State and Local Society c.1300–1340: A Preliminary Survey
- Revisiting Norham, May–June 1291
- Treason, Feud and the Growth of State Violence: Edward I and the ‘War of the Earl of Carrick’, 1306–7
- The Commendatio Lamentabilis for Edward I and Plantagenet Kingship
- Historians, Aristocrats and Plantagenet Ireland, 1200–1360
- War and Peace: A Knight's Tale. The Ethics of War in Sir Thomas Gray's Scalacronica
- The King's Secrets: Richard de Bury and the Monarchy of Edward III
- Budgeting at the Medieval Exchequer
- Recent Scholarship on Crusading and Medieval Warfare, 1095–1291: Convergence and Divergence
- The Military Ordinances of Henry V: Texts and Contexts
- Chivalry and English Kingship in the Later Middle Ages
- Cloth of Gold and Gold Thread: Luxury Imports to England in the Fourteenth Century
- Bibliography of the Writings of Michael Prestwich
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoriad
Summary
Nobody who has been engaged in the study of medieval history over the past two or three decades can fail to be struck by the recent resurgence of interest in military history. From a subject that was neglected by most practising medievalists, indeed regarded by many as fit only for amateurs, it has moved into the foreground of serious research. The military history of the crusades has benefited a good deal from this revival. This may seem unsurprising to those who view the crusades primarily as wars, but much of the most original recent research into the phenomenon of crusading has focused on its religious characteristics – crusade theology, preaching, devotional practices and associated legal and cultural aspects. R. C. Smail's Crusading Warfare (1097–1193) (1956) has always been treated with great respect by military historians for its methodological rigour and penetrating insights, but for many years Smail's study stood virtually alone as a book-length treatment of the strategy and tactics that were adopted by the crusaders, military orders and settlers in the East. When Christopher Marshall took Smail's analysis forward to the fall of Acre (1291) in 1992, it was tempting to conclude that the military history of crusading was effectively closed as a field of research in which new things could be discovered. That has turned out to be far from the case, and given that michael Prestwich has written both about the military history of western Europe and about the military aspect of crusading, this Festschrift provides a welcome opportunity to undertake a comparative review of the two fields of study.
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- War, Government and Aristocracy in the British Isles, c.1150–1500Essays in Honour of Michael Prestwich, pp. 197 - 213Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2008