MEDIEVAL WARFARE

The Move from Infantry to Cavalry:  Brunner vrs. White vrs. Morillo

Heinrich Brunner
The Feudalism Debate
Brunner Thesis:  Cavalry and the Beginnings of Feudalism
Feudalism (German:  Lehnswesen)
Medieval Elites:
First Estate (Churchmen)
Second Estate (Warriors)
Fief (feudum; feodum)
Charles Martel ("the Hammer")
Battle of Tours (732/733)
Charles Oman
Teutonic vrs. Gothic Lifestyle in relation to Cavalry Use
Fyrd
Agathias
Francisca (battle axe) and Angon (javelin)
Clovis
Battle of Vouille (507)
Alaric II
Brunia (earliest Frankish body armor)
Brunner Thesis:   connection of Tours, birth of heavy cavalry, and the system of feudalism
Charles Martel:  "Father of Feudalism"
Lynn White, Jr.
Medieval Technology and Social Change (esp. Chapter 1)
Conventional Wisdom vrs. Revisionism
THE Revisionist Historians (post-World War I)
Scientific cases of Revisionism:
Heliocentrism vrs. Geocentrism
Evolution vrs. Single Creation
Stephen Morillo, The "Age of Cavalry" Revisited"