The Great Companies - Rilegato

Fowler, Kenneth

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ISBN 10: 0631158863 ISBN 13: 9780631158868

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2000

Riassunto

This is the first book devoted exclusively to the history of 'The Great Companies', an assembly of mercenaries drawn from different European countries who came together to fight in the second half of the 14th century, sometimes in the employ of kings, the pope, princes or city republics, but frequently fighting on their own account.

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Recensione:

"This book will surely stand as the standard history of the companies for generations to come" American Historical Review

"Fowler provides a thoroughly researched ... examination of military politics." CHOICE

"If readers desire the details of a ten year period in which mercenary companies conducted a reign of terror west of the Rhine and north of the Alps, they will not do better than this account." Journal of Military History

"This book is solidly based on archival research. Fowler has consulted manuscript sources in depositories ranging from Perugia to Edinburgh ... This enables him to assemble, for the first time, a detailed and accurate picture of the movement of bodies of men whose military prowess played an important role in virtually every major sector of combat in this highly confused decade ... anyone working on this central phase of the Hundred Years War will have to consult this study ..." History

"This book draws upon several decades of work and utilizes the entire range of evidence available: modern scholarship, and printed and manuscript sources. This book will surely stand as the standard history of the companies for generations to come. Frequent, excellent, full–page maps help greatly." Book Review Digest

L'autore:

Kenneth Fowler, FRHS, is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Age of Plantagenet and Valois (1967) and The King's Lieutenant: Henry of Grosmont, First Duke of Lancaster 1310-1361 (1969), edited and contributed to The Hundred Years War (1971), and in recent years has written a large number of articles dealing with medieval warfare and in particular the activities of mercenary soldiers.

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• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0631158863
• ISBN 13: 9780631158868
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 403