Armies and Warfare in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany

David Stewart Bachrach is a professor of medieval European history at the University of New Hampshire. He specializes in the military and administrative history of the Carolingian and German Empires as well as the kingdom of England in the thirteenth and early fourteenth century. His recent publications include Administration and Organization of War in Thirteenth-Century England (2020), Foundations of Royal Power in Early Medieval Germany: Material Resources and Governmental Administration in a Carolingian Successor State (2022), and Warfare in the Global Middle Ages (2025) with Bernard S. Bachrach.

• 1. David S. Bachrach, “The Past and Future of Warfare in Early Medieval Germany,” previously unpublished.2. David S. Bachrach, “Immunities as Tools of Royal Military Policy under the Carolingian Kings,” Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, germanistische Abteilung 130 (2013), 1-36, republished with the permission of De Gruyter Press3. David S. Bachrach, “Ottonian Military Organization c. 900-1018: The Views of Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg,” Journal of Military History 72 (2008), 1061-1088, republished with the permission of the Society for Military History.4. David S. Bachrach, “Civilians and Militia in Ottonian Germany: Warfare in an Era of Small Professional Armies,” in Civilians and Warfare in World History, ed. Nicola Foote and Nadya Williams (Routledge Press, London, 2017), 110-131, republished with the permission of Routledge Press.5. David S. Bachrach, “The Ducal Office in Ottonian Germany from a Military-Administrative Perspective,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series 16 (2019, appearing 2022), 77-115, republished with the permission of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.6. David S. Bachrach, “Feeding the Host: The Ottonian Royal Fisc in Military Perspective,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd Series 9 (2012), 1-43, republished with the permission of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.7. David S. Bachrach and Bernard S. Bachrach, “Military Intelligence and Long-Term Planning in the Ninth Century: The Carolingians and their Adversaries,” Mediavistik 33 (2020), 89-111, republished with the permission of Peter Lang Verlag.8. David S. Bachrach, “Military Intelligence and Strategic Planning under the Ottonian Kings of Germany, c. 919-c.1024,” in Military Cultures and Martial Enterprises in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Richard P. Abels, ed. John Hosler and Steven Isaac (Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2020), 61-87, reprinted with the permission of Boydell and Brewer Press.9. David S. Bachrach, “Restructuring the Eastern Frontier: Henry I of Germany 924-936,” Journal of Military History 78.1 (2014), 1-27, reprinted with the permission of the Society for Military History.10. David S. Bachrach, “The Eastern Campaigns of King Henry II of Germany, 1003-1017,” Journal of Medieval Military History 17 (2020), 1-36, reprinted with the permission of Boydell and Brewer Press.11. David S. Bachrach, “Military Chaplains and the Religion of War in Ottonian Germany, 919-1024,” Religion, State, and Society 39.1 (2011), 13-31, reprinted with the permission of Routledge Press.12. David S. Bachrach, “Grand Strategy of the Ottonian Empire,” in The Routledge Handbook of Medieval Military Strategy, ed. Daniel P. Franke and John D. Hosler (London, 2024), 32-43, reprinted with the permission of Routledge Press.