Machine generated contents note: 20. Conclusion -- militarisation: process or discourse? / Guy Halsall. pt. I THE MILITARY AND SOCIETY -- 2. Soldier and civilian in the Byzantine Empire c. 600 -- c. 900: a militarised society? / Philip Ranee -- 3. The exercitus Gothorum in Italy: a professional army in a demilitarised society? / Kai Grundmann -- 4. Military organisation as an indicator of militarisation (and demilitarisation) in Lombard Italy / Guido M. Berndt -- 5. The `dark matter' evidence for Alfredian military reforms in their ninth-century context / Ryan Lavelle -- pt. II WARFARE AND SOCIETY -- 6. War and the transformation of society in early Byzantine Arabia / Conor Whately -- 7. The role of the military factor in the political and administrative shaping of the Visigothic kingdom (sixth to seventh centuries) / Pablo Poveda Arias -- 8. Recent archaeological research on fortifications in France, Belgium and Switzerland, 750 -- 1000 / Luc Bourgeois -- 9. Gens Germana gente ferocior: Lombards and warfare between representation and reality / Stefano Gasparri -- 10. The blinkers of militarisation: Charles the Bald, Lothar I and the Vikings / Simon Coupland -- pt. III ETHICS OF WAR -- 11. Manlike discipline and loyalty against the `enemies of God': some observations on the militarised frontier society of eastern Francia around 600 / Stefan Esders -- 12. Swords in Christian hands: reflections on the emergence of the `Schwertmission' in the early Middle Ages / Uta Heil -- 13. `Holy wars'? `Religious wars'? The perception of religious motives of warfare against non-Christian enemies in ninth-century chronicles / Hans-Werner Goetz -- pt. IV PERCEPTIONS OF THE WARRIOR -- 14. Change of habit equals change of values? Burials of `military men' between 300 and 500 / Benjamin Hamm -- 15. Warlike and heroic virtues in the post-Roman world / Edward James -- 16. Military equipment in late antique and early medieval female burial evidence: a reflection of `militarisation'? / Susanne Brather-Walter -- 17. The construction of the enemy in pre-Viking England / Ellora Bennett -- 18. Warriors and warlike kings in the Gesta Karoli of Notker the Stammerer / Thomas Wittkamp -- 19. Early medieval `warrior' images and the concept of Gefolgschaft / Michel Summer -- 20. Conclusion -- militarisation: process or discourse? / Guy Halsall.
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