MEDIEVAL WARFARE

List of Lectures

Introduction:  The Return of Military History (List of terms)  (Notes on the lecture)

Lecture 1:  A World at War:  Origins of Human Warfare  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 2:  Warfare in the Fertile Crescent and the Birth of Metal Weapons  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 3:  Two Ancient Formations:  The Phalanx vrs. the Legion  (List)  (Notes)

Video:  The Roman Legion

Lecture 4:  The Pax Romana:  A Military-Based Peace?  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 5:  Rome vrs. the Germans:  A Changing Balance and the Birth of the Western Middle Ages   (List)  (Notes)

Video:  The Barbarians:  Visigoths

Video:  The Barbarians:  Huns

Lecture 6:  The Franks, Religion, Politics, and Early Medieval Warfare  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 7:  The Reign of Charlemagne:  Effects of Good Government on Military Success  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 8:  The Move from Infantry to Cavalry:  Brunner vrs. White vrs. Morillo  (List)  (Notes)

Reading:  Selections by Lynn White and Steven Morillo

Lecture 9:  The Darkness After Charlemagne and War in the Viking Age  (List)  (Notes)

Video:  The Barbarians:  Vikings

Video:  The Conquerors:  William the Conqueror
 

Study Guide for Test 1: Includes Lectures 1-9/Accompanying videos and readings
 

Lecture 10:  The Medieval Warrior  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 11:  Arms, Armor, and Training   (List)  (Notes)

Reading:  Article by John Clements

Lecture 12:  The Art of Castle Building  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 13:  Life in the Medieval Castle  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 14:  Siege Warfare:  Defending and Capturing the Castle  (List)  (Notes)

Video:  Modern Marvels:  Castles and Dungeons

Video:  Ancient Empires:  The Trebuchet

Lecture 15:  The Many Faces of Feudalism  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 16:  Eastern Ways of War:  The Survival of the Byzantine Empire  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 17:  Eastern Ways of War:  The Rise of Islam  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 18:  The Crusades  (List) (Notes)

Reading:  Edward M. Peters, The First Crusade:  The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and Other Source Materials

Reading:  Article by Kelly DeVries

Lecture 19:  Gunpowder Weaponry  (List)  (Notes)

Lecture 20:  Ships and Guns  (List)  (Notes)

(And as time permits)

Video:  The Crusades (with Terry Jones)

Video:  The Barbarians:  Mongols

Study Guide for Test 2 (Final Exam): Includes Lectures 10-19/Accompanying videos and readings

Appendices:

Systems of Historical Dating