Title: European Medieval
Tactics (2)
Subtitle: The Revival of
Infantry
1260-1500 (ELI189)
Author/s: David Nicolle
RRP: $24.99
ISBN: 9781849087391
Format: Paperback, 64 pages
Dimensions: 248mm x 184mm
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Aust. Release Date: Sept 2012
Book Description/Synopsis:
With the development in the 13th century of
co-operative tactics using crossbowmen and heavy spearmen, circumstance began
to arise in which the charge by Muslim horse-archers, and then by European
armoured knights, could be defied. Infantry were far cheaper and easier to
train than knights, and potentially there were far more of them. Tactics
emerged by which more numerous and more varied infantry played an increasing
part in battles. This book traces these and other examples of this 'jerky' and
uneven process through its regional differences which were invariably entwined
with parallel cavalry developments - the balanced army of 'mixed arms' was
always the key to success. By the time serious hand-held firearms appeared on
battlefields in large numbers in about 1500, the face of medieval warfare had
been transformed.
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