Incorporating the latest developments in the study of the period, a team of leading international scholars provides a fresh and dynamic picture of a period of great transformation in the political, cultural, and economic life of the Italian peninsula, which witnessed the rise of autonomous city stat
A Society organized for war: the iberian municipal militias in the central middle ages, 1000-1284
โ Scribed by James F. Powers
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 228
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part One
The Evolution of Peninsular Municipal Military Service
Chapter 1: The Origins and Development of the Militia Concept, 1000-1157
Chapter 2: Institutional Maturity and Military Success, 1158-1252
Chapter 3: The End of an Era, 1252-1284
Part Two
The Organization for War and its Social and Economic Influences
Chapter 4 : The Symbosis of Urban and Military Organization
Chapter 5 : The Conditions of Service and the Warriors' Arms
Chapter 6 : The Militia in Defense and on Campaign
Chapter 7 : Spoils and Compensations: Municipal Warfare as an Economic Enterprise
Chapter 8 : Military Justice and Frontier Security
Epilogue -- and Prologue
Appendix A : Portuguese Charter Families Based on Military Law
Appendix B : The Cuenca-Teruel, Coria Cima-Coa, and Toledo Forumlaries
Appendix C : Rulers of Leon-Castile, Aragon, Navarre, Portugal, and the County of Barcelona (1000-1284)
Abbreviations for Frequently Used Sources
Glossary
Bibliography
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