Aspects of War in the Late Middle Ages

Christopher Allmand is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Liverpool, UK. His previous publications include Henry V (1968), Lancastrian Normandy 1415-1450, The History of a Medieval Occupation (1983), The Hundred Years War: England and France at War, c.1300-c.1450 (2001), War, Government and Power in Late Medieval France (2000), and The De Re Militari of Vegetius: The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages (2011).

Chapter 1: A Roman text on War. The Strategemata of Frontinus in the Middle Ages. / Chapter 2: The De Re Militari of Vegetius: How did the Middle Ages treat a Late Roman Text on War? / Chapter 3: The Fifteenth – Century English Prose Version of Vegetius’ De Re Militari. / Chapter 4: Did the De Re Militari of Vegetius influence the Military Ordinances of Charles the Bold? / Chapter 5: Changing Perceptions of the Soldier in Late Medieval France. / Chapter 6: Some Intellectual Influences on the Origins of the Royal Army in Medieval France. / Chapter 7: ‘Personal Honour or Common Good? The Witness of Le Jouvencel in the Fifteenth Century.’ / Chapter 8: The Problem of Desertion in France, England and Burgundy in the Late Middle Ages. / Chapter 9: Normandy in English Opinion at the End of the Hundred Years War. / Chapter 10: Diplomacy: The Anglo- French Negotiations, 1439. / Chapter 11: Local Reaction to the French Reconquest of Normandy (1449-50): The Example of Rouen. / Chapter 12: National Reconcilliation in France at the End of the Hundred Years War. / Chapter 13: Spies and Spying in the Fourteenth Century. / Chapter 14: War and the Non-Combatant during the Hundred Years War.