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Medieval Military Combat
By Tom Lewis
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Description
We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armor smashing each other with their maces and poleaxes for hours on end, as depicted on film and in programs such as Game of Thrones?
They could not have done so. It is impossible to fight in such a manner for more than several minutes as exhaustion becomes a preventative factor.
Indeed, we know more of how the Roman and Greek armies fought than we do of the 1300 to 1550 period.
So how did medieval soldiers in the War of the Roses, and in the infantry sections of battles such as Agincourt and Towton, carry out their grim work?
Medieval Military Combat shows, for the first time, the techniques of such battles. It also breaks new ground in establishing medieval battle numbers as highly exaggerated, and that we need to look again at the accounts of actions such as the famous Battle of Towton, which this work uses as a basic for its overall study.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2021-04-16
Publication Date:
2021-04-05
Publisher:
Casemate
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1612008879
ISBN13:
9781612008875
Weight:
514 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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