| Armies and Politics in the Early Medieval West Contributor(s): Bachrach, Bernard S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 086078374X ISBN-13: 9780860783749 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - History |
| Dewey: 322.509 |
| LCCN: 93007204 |
| Series: Variorum Collected Studies |
| Physical Information: (1.21 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In these articles Professor Bachrach starts by looking at aspects of the 'barbarian' occupation of the land of the Roman Empire, from Britain to the Alan settlements in southern Gaul. His particular interest, however, is in the political and, above all, in the military structures that grew out of the Early Middle Ages. He has sought to demonstrate that there was a fundamental continuity in military organisation and tactics from the Merovingian through the Carolingian period. As he shows, there is no reason to connect the origins of 'feudalism' with Charles Martel's wish to create a force of cavalry, and it is a fallacy that he grasped the potential of the stirrup for enabling mounted shock combat. On the contrary, its use in the West progressed only slowly, and it had nothing to do with the origins or growth of feudalism. Le professeur Bachrach d bute par l'analyse de certains aspects de l'occupation barbare des terres de l'empire romain, de la Grande-Bretagne aux campements alans en Gaule m ridionale. Il s'attache en suite aux structures politiques et, surtout, militaires qui furent issues du Haut Moyen Age. Selon lui, et il tente d'en faire ici la d monstration, l'organisation et les tactiques militaires ont fait preuve d'une continuit fondamentale de l' poque m rovingienne celle des Carolingiens. Comme il le demontre, il n'y a pas lieu d' tablir de liens entre l'origine du f odalisme et le d sir qu'avait Charles Martel de cr er une cavalerie; il est galement tout fait erron de dire que ce dernier s' tait rendu compte du potentiel de l' trier en tant que facteur de mener des combats cheval de choc. Bien contraire, l'utilisation de l' trier l'Ouest ne fit que progresser lentement et aucun rapport n'existe entre cet instrument et l'origine ou la croissance de la f odalit . |