Early Medieval Militarisation

Ellora Bennett is a D.Phil Candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin Guido M. Berndt is a Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin Stefan Esders is Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin Laury Sarti is Lecturer at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg -- .

1 Introducing early medieval militarisation, 400–900 AD – Laury Sarti, Ellora Bennett, Guido M. Berndt and Stefan Esders
Part I: The military and society
2 Soldier and civilian in the Byzantine Empire c. 600–c. 900: a militarised society? – Philip Rance
3 The exercitus Gothorum in Italy: a professional army in a demilitarised society? – Kai Grundmann
4 Military organisation as an indicator of militarisation (and demilitarisation) in Lombard Italy – Guido M. Berndt
5 The ‘dark matter’ evidence for Alfredian military reforms in their ninth-century context – Ryan Lavelle
Part II: Warfare and society
6 War and the transformation of society in the early Byzantine Arabia – Conor Whately
7 The role of the military factor in the political and administrative shaping of the Visigothic Kingdom (sixth to seventh centuries) – Pablo Poveda Arias
8 Recent archaeological research on fortifications in France, Belgium and Swizerland, 750–1000 – Luc Bourgeois
9 Gens Germana gente ferocior: Lombards and warfare between representation and reality – Stefano Gasparri
10 The blinkers of militarisation: Charles the Bald, Lothar I and the Vikings – Simon Coupland
Part III: Ethics of war
11 Manlike discipline and loyalty against the ‘enemies of God’: some observations on the militarised frontier society of eastern Francia around 600 – Stefan Esders
12 Swords in Christian hands: reflections on the emergence of the ‘Schwertmission’ in the early Middle Ages – Uta Heil
13 ‘Holy wars’? ‘Religious wars’? The perception of religious motives of warfare against non-Christian enemies in ninth-century chronicles – Hans-Werner Goetz
Part IV: Perceptions of the warrior
14 Change of habit equals change of values? Burials of ‘military men’ between 300 and 500 AD – Benjamin Hamm
15 Warlike and heroic virtues in the post-Roman world – Edward James
16 Military equipment in late antique and early medieval female burial evidence: a reflection of ‘militarisation’? – Susanne Brather-Walter
17 The construction of the enemy in pre-Viking England – Ellora Bennett
18 Warriors and warlike kings in the Gesta Karoli of Notker the Stammerer – Thomas Wittkamp
19 Early medieval ‘warrior’ images and the concept of Gefolgschaft – Michel Summer
20 Conclusion: militarisation: process or discourse? – Guy Halsall
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