Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations and Map vi
4. 1 Some Observations Regarding Barbarian Military Demography: Geiseric’s Census of 429 and Its Implications 1
5. 2 War Words and Battle Spears: The kesja and kesjulag in Old Norse Literature 39
6. 3 The Political and Military Agency of Ecclesiastical Leaders in Anglo-Norman England: 1066–1154 51
7. 4 Couched Lance and Mounted Shock Combat in the East The Georgian Experience 81
8. 5 The Battle of Arsur: A Short-Lived Victory 109
9. 6 Prelude to Kephissos (1311): An Analysis of the Battle of Apros (1305) 119
10. 7 Horse Restoration (Restaurum Equorum) in the Army of Henry of Grosmont, 1345: A Benefit of Military Service in the Hundred Years’ War 139
11. 8 The Indenture between Edward III and the Black Prince for the Prince’s Expedition to Gascony, 10 July 1355 165
12. 9 Investigating the Socio-Economic Origins of English Archers in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century 173
13. 10 War and the Great Schism: Military Factors Determining Allegiances in Iberia 217
14. List of Contributors 239