Military Technology and Garrison Organization: Some Observations on Anglo-Saxon Military Thinking in Light of the Burghal Hidage
Bernard S. Bachrach|Rutherford Aris
DR. BACHRACH, professor of history at the University Minnesota since 1975, earned his Ph.D. California (1966) and was elected a fellow Medieval Academy America in 1986. He specializes medieval is author numerous books articles, including Merovingian Military Organization (1972), A History Alans West (1973), Early Jewish Policy (1977); political biography count Fulk Nerra (987-1040) will appear near future. ARIS, Regents' Professor Chemical Engineering Minnesota, has (in mathematics chemical engineering) D.Sc. from London. American Arts Sciences member National Engineering. As well as teaching publishing on engineering, he teaches Latin paleography An Index Scripts E. A. Lowe's Codices Latini Antiquiores (1982). currently working an introduction to paleography, entitled Explicatio Formarum Litterarum, be published 1990. 'See, e.g., important old general studies: Hans Delbriick, Art War within Framework Political History, vol. 2, ed. trans. Walter J. Renfroe, Jr. (Westport, Conn., 1982); Charles Oman, Middle Ages, 2 vols. (London, 1924); Ferdinand Lot, L'Art militaire et les arme'es au Moyen Age, en Europe dans le Proche-Orient, (Paris, 1946). Even excellent studies by F. Verbruggen, The Warfare Western during Ages Eighth Century 1340, Sumner Willard S. C. M. Southern (Amsterdam, 1977); Philippe Contamine, Michael Jones (Oxford, 1984), seriously neglect problem numbers with regard pre-Crusade Europe. question been taken up Bernard Bachrach, Angevin Campaign Forces Reign Nerra, Count Angevins (987-1040), Francia, 16 (1988). For recent reassessment size William Conqueror's army 1066, see Some Observations Administration Norman Conquest, Anglo-Norman Studies 8 (1986):1-25.
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