De Re Militari: Association for the Advancement of Classical and
Medieval Military Studies: http://www.deremilitari.org/
Named for the most important late Roman work on military
affairs, written around 390 by Vegetius, this is the major organization
of medieval military historians in the United States. While the majority
of members are from this country, a substantial minority comes from Canada
and Great Britain.
ARMA: The Association for Renaissance Martial Arts: http://www.thearma.org/
You want to become a medieval warrior? This is
the place to do it! ARMA, an organization now headquartered in Atlanta,
teaches people medieval and Renaissance fighting techniques with a variety
of weapons, based on a careful examination of the surviving literary and
pictorial sources from the period. The Association, that combines scholarship
and hands-on experimentation, is headed by John Clements, America's foremost
medieval-Renaissance martial artist. Members of the Association are not simply
reenactors.
TemplarHistory.Com: http://www.templarhistory.com/
Although this is a commercial site and suffers from
a superabundance of advertising, it is the best Templar site among many
on the web. (There is currently some indication that the advertising arm
of the order may soon be split off to a separate site.) For the most useful material, including a collection of
documents dealing with the Templars, click through to the History section.
Tales from Froissart: http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/froissart/tales.htm
Born in Hainault, a duchy in the Low Countries, Jean
Froissart was the most important chronicler of the later Middle Ages. In
a life of travel, he encountered many of the people whose stories he would
record, writing and rewriting a sweeping chronicle of late fourteenth century
Europe, much of it devoted to warfare. Steve Muhlberger of Nipissing
University has made a number of sections of the chronicle available on the
web, using for the purpose the standard nineteenth century, two volume translation by Thomas Johnes.
NetSERF: The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources:
http://www.netserf.org/
A play on words, Netserf contains a user-friendly bibliography
of medieval sources by subject. Included are entries on Military History,
Feudalism, and Heraldry and Genealogy, all of which have a bearing on medieval
warfare.
The Medieval Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
This source is posted by Fordham University, one of America's leading
centers for Medieval Studies. It is part of Fordham's on-going Internet History
Sourcebooks Project (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
), begun in 1996 and continuing into the present. While the
sourcebook is not exclusively or even primarily military, it contains many
medieval documents which will interest scholars studying war in the Middle
Ages.
The English Calendar of Patent Rolls: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/patentrolls/
The printed Calendar of Patent Rolls, consisting of 49 volumes and
covering the years 1216-1452, has long been a major source for
medievalists working in English history. It contains a record of
patents issued by the crown conferring all sorts of royal grants
conferring property and titles, pardoning crime, protecting individuals in
the performance of their duties or business, etc. Quite a number of
these patents shed light on military affairs in England.
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