A concise and entertaining explanation of how other accounts, and
popular culture such as films, have misrepresented medieval warfare.
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.
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Battle Tactics and Fighting Techniques of the Wars of the Roses
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781612008882
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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