Journal of Medieval Military History

Volume XX (2022)

Edited by John France, Kelly DeVries, Clifford J. Rogers

The essays in this volume of the Journal continue its proud tradition of presenting cutting-edge research with a wide chronological and geographical range, from eleventh-century Georgia (David IV’s use of the methods described in De velitatione bellica) to fifteenth-century England and France (a detailed analysis of the use of the under-appreciated lancegay and similar weapons). Iberia and the Empire are also addressed, with a study of Aragonese leaders in the War of the Two Pedros, a discussion of Prince Ferdinand’s battle-seeking strategy prior to the battle of Toro in 1476, and an analysis and transcription of a newly-discovered Habsburg battle plan of the early sixteenth century, drawn up for the war against Venice. The volume also embraces different approaches, from cultural-intellectual history (the afterlife of the medieval Christian Warrior), to experimental archaeology (the mechanics of raising trebuchets), to comparison of “the face of battle” in a medieval illuminated manuscript with its depiction in modern films, to archivally-based administrative history (recruitment among the sub-gentry for Edward I’s armies).

Contributors: David S. Bachrach, Daniel Bertrand, Peter Burkholder, Ekaitz Etxeberria Gallastegi, Michael John Harbinson, Steven Isaac, Donald J. Kagay, Tomaž Lazar, Mamuka Tsurtsumia

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Contents

• De velitatione bellica and Georgian Art of War During the Reign of David IV – Mamuka Tsurtsumia
• The Afterlife of the Medieval Christian Warrior – Steven Isaac
• More Accurate Than You Think: Re-evaluating Medieval Warfare in Film – Peter Burkholder
• Raising the Medieval Trebuchet: Assembly Method and the Standing of a Half-scale Machine – Daniel Bertrand
• Cum Socio Eiusdem: Military Recruitment in the Armies of Edward I Among the Sub-Gentry – David S. Bachrach
• Two Walls of Protection: Queen Elionor of Sicily and Bishop Berenguer de Cruïlles of Gerona During the 1359 Naval Campaigns of The War of the Two Pedros – Donald J. Kagay
• The Lancegay and Associated Weapons – Michael John Harbinson
• “I intend to give him battle” Battle Seeking in a Civil War Context: Toro (1476) – Ekaitz Etxeberria Gallastegi
• Discovery of an Early 16th-century Battle Plan from the Archdiocesan Archive in Ljubljana – Tomaž Lazar