Routledge Handbook of Medieval Military Strategy

John D. Hosler is a Professor of Military History at the Command and General Staff College. He is the author, most recently, of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace (Yale UP), and is the editor of Seven Myths of Military History (Hackett).Daniel P. Franke is an Associate Professor of History at Richard Bland College of William & Mary in Petersburg, Virginia. He specializes in the military history of Germany and England and is currently completing a study of Frederick Barbarossa as a military commander.

"A major contribution not only to strategic studies but also to our understanding of medieval warfare as a whole, this collection fully vindicates its thesis that strategy existed before the term and was of fundamental importance."Jeremy Black, author of Military Strategy: A Global History, University of Exeter, UK"This is a groundbreaking resource, surveying approaches to military strategy from across the planet. Written by an impressive line-up of leading experts, this collection provides a scholarly benchmark for research on an astonishing range of military societies, whilst simultaneously offering new insights on many aspects of global military history." Nicholas Morton, Nottingham Trent University, UK

• Introduction Part I: Europe 1. Charlemagne’s Long-Term Strategic Goal: Obtaining the Imperial Title in the West 2. Anglo-Saxon and Viking Military Strategies 3. Grand Strategy of the Ottonian Empire, 919-973 4. Strategy in the High Middle Ages: Anglo-Normans, Capetians and Plantagenets 5. Insurgency: Unconventional Strategy in the West, 500-1300 6. The Continuous Crusade in Northeast Europe: Warfare in Livonia, Estonia, Prussia and Lithuania, 1198-1411 7. Military Professionalization and Strategy in Late Medieval England 8. Beyond the Town Walls: Economy and the Florentine Forces, 1336-1392 9. The Origins of National Navies in the West 10. Strategy and Military Revolutions Part II: The Mediterranean 11. Strategy and Grand Strategy: Resources, Geopolitics and Ideology in the East Roman/Byzantine Empire 12. Maurice and His Legacy: Strategike in the Byzantine Military Manuals 13. The Fatimids and Syria 14. The Crusades: Western Armies and Eastern Strategies 15. The Rule of the Temple and the Military-Religious Orders 16. Raiding as a Strategy in Medieval Georgia 17. Spain’s Leading Thirteenth-Century Law Code and (Incidental) Military Treatise Las Siete Partidas 18. Ottomans: Mehmed the Conqueror Part III: Asia and Africa 19. Beyond and Behind the Wall: Siege Warfare of Sui-Tang China, 600-900 20. China in the Gunpowder Age, Song to Ming Dynasties 21. Strategy and Warfare in Ancient and Medieval Japan 22. Strategies in Post-Gupta India 23. Strategy of the Delhi Sultanate, 1206-1526 24. Strategy and the Mughal Empire 25. Strategy in the Mongol Way of War 26. Almoravid Tactics and Strategy 27. “The Kingdom of Ethiopia Shall Live Forever”: Military Strategies in Ethiopia (13th-16th Centuries) 28. Military Strategies in Pre-17th Century West Africa 29. The Military-Political Strategy of the Medieval Kingdom of Kongo Part IV: Western Hemisphere 30. The Excan tlatoloyan and Military Strategies for Mesoamerican Control in the Late Post-Classic Period 31. Late Andean Warfare: Evolving Military Sophistication under the Inka 32. Medieval Strategy: Conclusions and New Directions