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Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages
Series: Soldiers' Lives through History
 Clifford J. Rogers

0-313-33350-5/978-0-313-33350-7

Description
A historian vividly brings to life the soldier in the Middle Ages, from Scotland to Portugal to the Mediterranean to the Baltics, in full armor, with iron helmet, shield, sword, and lance.

Reviews:
-"Rogers does not flinch as he describes the lives of soldiers serving from Scotland to Portugal and from the Frankish Levant to the Baltics from the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the fifteenth century. Wisely taking an impressionistic rather than analytical approach to this enormous subject, he strives for a balanced portrait of what soldiers did to kill each other and protect themselves, how they were organized and led, how the warfare in which they were engaged was conducted, and how they were supported and supplied. He covers soldiering in peacetime, the business of recruitment, life in camp and on the march, sieges, battle strategies and consequences (including the truly horrific medical care) and the art of the little war, in which participants provided escorts, committed extortion or ambushed each other." —Reference & Research Book News
-". . .this work provides a valuable survey of many of the central questions in the investigation of the life of the soldier during the Middle Ages. It will be a useful and highly readable textbook for undergraduate courses in military history and a companion volume for medieval and Western civilization courses." —Speculum, A Journal of Medieval Studies
-"Scholars will appreciate the synthesis of medieval soldiering on a grand scale, and will come away with a renewed respect, both for the ingenuity of the medieval soldier as well as the meticulous scholarship of the author. Soldiers' Lives Through History: The Middle Ages should be on the shelf of every serious student of medieval warfare." —deremilitari.org
About the Author
Clifford J. Rogers is Professor of History at the United States Military Academy. He is the author of many publications, including The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations (1999) and The Military Revolution Debate (1995).
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