"Warfare In The Global Middle Ages | History

War preparation for war and dealing with war’s aftermath consumed the greater part of the surplus resources of societies around the globe throughout the pre-modern period. Military matters affected men women and children alike as direct participants in organized violence as the victims of conflicts or through broad-based impositions on ostensibly civilian populations in cash kind and labor. Warfare in the Global Middle Ages illuminates the organization and conduct of war as well as the impact of warfare on societies in Europe Asia Africa and the Americas across a long millennium spanning from the third century CE to the sixteenth century CE. The volume is organized in eight chapters which address the current state of scholarship regarding warfare over this long period the source materials available to scholars to investigate the myriad questions related to this broad field and the institutions developed by societies to defend themselves and engage in wars of conquest military technology the logistics of war the education and training of military leaders and individual combatants as well as strategy military intelligence and diplomacy. The authors argue that an analysis of these topics illuminates broad similarities among polities across the globe the transmission of ideas and technologies on a regional and global level and also important differences in the ways that societies responded to similar challenges. This work is intended broadly both for specialists in the history of warfare across the globe for an interested lay public as well as for use in the classroom.|Warfare in the Global Middle Ages | History