Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-332) and index.
Contents:
Pt. 1. The barbarian kingdoms. Attila is dead : the early barbarian kingdoms -- A double pestilence : Ostrogoths and Byzantines in Italy -- The arrival of the Longobards -- The Franks and the emergence of France -- Pt. 2. The Muslim empire. God, his prophet, and war : the origins -- The conquest of the Fertile Crescent : Muslims in Syria and Iraq -- The Muslim strike into North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula -- Pt. 3. New invaders and the expansion of the west, 800-1300. Armor, weapons, and soldiers -- Protecting the borders against the new enemies : Vikings and Magyars -- The Norman Conquest of England -- The war against walls -- The way of the masters : men on horseback -- The way of the commoners : soldiers on foot -- The Crusades, or God at war -- Pt. 4. The end of the Middle Ages, 1300-1453. The Hundred Years War : a matter of contradictions and resilience -- The Maid of OrleĢans and women at war -- "Waging war gives me bread-- peace destroys me" -- New weapons, new men, new ideas.
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