Annotated Bibliography: Late Medieval Warfare
Bibliography
Contamine, Philippe. War in the Middle Ages. New York: B.Blackwell, 1984.
Honig, Jan Willem. “Reappraising Late Medieval Strategy.” War in History 19 (2012): 123-151. Accessed September 26, 2013 on Academic One File.
Keen, Maurice. Medieval Warfare: a history. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Mortimer, Ian. “What Hundred Years War?.” History Today 59 (2009): 27-33. Accessed September 16, 2013 on JSTOR.
“The Sack of Limoges: On warfare without chivalry” in Sources of Western Society, edited by McKay, John P. et al., 195-196. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010.
Source Analysis-On warfare without chivalry
On Warfare without Chivalry(The Sack of …show more content…
The passage shows that moral values played a fundamental role in the chivalric society, that religion was considered an important part of being a good knight and that good behaviour was one of the key characteristics for being an ideal chivalric knight.
Moral Values in Chivalry played a significant role since the knights had to stick to a chivalric code who determined what was correct and what not.1 When the English in the …show more content…
In Limoges, everyone is killed, even the poor who did not even do something bad which could be reasonable to kill them.¹ Sticking to the Code of conduct, knights were supposed to kill as few people as possible. They should behave morally correct in a strict way as for example announcing a battle before you start it and not just start entering the town⁵which explains, why the inhabitants were so surprised about¹ the attack, even if they realized the mines before. Also, a knight always had to follow his Superior, in most cases his king.⁶ Besides the moral values the code of conduct also contained religious rules for the knights to follow. Anyone who has any feeling of religion would supremely bemoan the for them unbelievably cruel Situation in Limoges.¹ This states that the English were not thinking religious and therefore not acting chivalric. The religious connection to the code of chivalry was formed during the crusades when the knights fought for religion and thus came even closer to god.⁷ The Chivalric knights were even considered as knights of god⁸ , which shows that god
Contamine, Philippe. War in the Middle Ages. New York: B.Blackwell, 1984.
Honig, Jan Willem. “Reappraising Late Medieval Strategy.” War in History 19 (2012): 123-151. Accessed September 26, 2013 on Academic One File.
Keen, Maurice. Medieval Warfare: a history. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Mortimer, Ian. “What Hundred Years War?.” History Today 59 (2009): 27-33. Accessed September 16, 2013 on JSTOR.
“The Sack of Limoges: On warfare without chivalry” in Sources of Western Society, edited by McKay, John P. et al., 195-196. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010.
Source Analysis-On warfare without chivalry
On Warfare without Chivalry(The Sack of …show more content…
The passage shows that moral values played a fundamental role in the chivalric society, that religion was considered an important part of being a good knight and that good behaviour was one of the key characteristics for being an ideal chivalric knight.
Moral Values in Chivalry played a significant role since the knights had to stick to a chivalric code who determined what was correct and what not.1 When the English in the …show more content…
In Limoges, everyone is killed, even the poor who did not even do something bad which could be reasonable to kill them.¹ Sticking to the Code of conduct, knights were supposed to kill as few people as possible. They should behave morally correct in a strict way as for example announcing a battle before you start it and not just start entering the town⁵which explains, why the inhabitants were so surprised about¹ the attack, even if they realized the mines before. Also, a knight always had to follow his Superior, in most cases his king.⁶ Besides the moral values the code of conduct also contained religious rules for the knights to follow. Anyone who has any feeling of religion would supremely bemoan the for them unbelievably cruel Situation in Limoges.¹ This states that the English were not thinking religious and therefore not acting chivalric. The religious connection to the code of chivalry was formed during the crusades when the knights fought for religion and thus came even closer to god.⁷ The Chivalric knights were even considered as knights of god⁸ , which shows that god