This book provides an overarching, comprehensive analysis of the French military in the medieval period. The focus is on the armies of the French monarchy and the lands close around them, extending from the Low Countries to Provence. Central themes include recruitment and payment; military organisation; leadership, strategy, and tactics; weapons and arms; chivalry, military culture, and the rise of military professionalism.
- Front Cover
- Front matter
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Body
- Introduction
- Purpose and Range of This Book
- Historiography
- Chapter 1. Technology and Warfare
- Preliminary Remarks
- Cavalry
- Infantry
- Castles and Sieges
- Military Organization and Tactics
- Chapter 2. The Emergence of France
- The “Frankish” Roots of Kingship
- The Parting of the Ways
- Rival Royal Houses
- Summary
- Chapter 3. French Monarchical Power in Context
- The “Princes”
- A Feudal Revolution?
- Princes, Kings, and Military Power
- Castles
- Chapter 4. Warfare in France to 1066
- The Siege of Paris
- Two Threads of Warfare
- The Ascent of the Capetians
- A New Dynasty, a New Start?
- Chapter 5. A Clash of Dynasties 1066–1180
- The French Monarchy and the Anglo-Norman State
- Louis the Fat
- France and Crusading
- Battle of Brémule
- The Murder of Charles the Good of Flanders
- The Second Crusade
- Louis VII and the Angevin “Empire”
- Louis and the Great Revolt
- Chapter 6. Philip II and the Rise of France
- The Early Reign
- The Third Crusade
- The War with Richard Lionheart
- The Seizure of Normandy
- King John’s War of Recovery
- The Campaign of Bouvines
- The Battle of Bouvines
- Chapter 7. The Expansion of France
- The Invasion of England
- The Battle of Lincoln
- Battle at Sea: Sandwich and the Endgame
- The South and the French Monarchy
- The Albigensian Crusade
- Battle of Muret
- Louis VIII Intervenes
- Chapter 8. Louis IX and the Apogee of French Power
- The Early Reign
- The Angevin Problem
- The Crusades of Louis IX
- The Fourth Crusade and the Context of Enthusiasm
- Louis IX’s Crusade to Egypt
- Battle at Mansourah
- Defeat
- France and Europe
- Sicily: the French Intervention
- Battle of Benevento
- The Battle of Tagliacozzo
- Charles of Anjou and the Mediterranean World
- Louis IX and the Crusade to Tunis
- Chapter 9. The Problems of Power
- The War of the Vespers
- The Development of the French Army
- France and the War of the Vespers
- Naval Warfare
- One Problem Leads to Another
- The Flemish Revolt
- The Battle of Courtrai
- The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle
- Chapter 10. Perspectives on the Army of the Kings
of France
- The Influence of the Crusades?
- Back matter
- Bibliography
- A. Sources
- B. Secondary Works
- Works of Reference
- Abbreviations
- Appendix
A Note on Sources
- Index
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