The Logistics of Fortified Bridge Building on the Seine under Charles the Bald
Carroll Gillmar
The Frankish military response to the Northmen under Charles Bald cansisted primarily of fortified bridge construction inderdict passage Norse ships on fluvial systems West Francia. Previous scholars, namely Ferdinand Lot and Fernand Vercauteren, provided chronological narratives this process, while Kurt Ulrich Jäschke undertook a three-way comparison measures with burghs Alfred Great defence works Henry I Saxony. Departing radically from these approaches study logistics entire bridge-building process promises develop data expenditure material resources project, will illuminate complexity Carolingian administrative effort an analysis texts organisation labour for project. methodology involves integration several different kinds evidence, specifically, written texts, archaeological findings, historical climatology modem comparative human animal efficiency. This interdisciplinary approach, when combined similar studies kind, provide basis environmental history Early Mediaeval Europe.