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| October 2003 La
guerre au Moyen Age
The opinion of Casteland: Been useful by a quite simply exceptional bibliography (more than 1700 entries!), this remarkable book poses without turnings all the fundamental ones of the war at the Average Age Published for the first time in 1980, it makes the object since then of regular republications for all those which are not pleased already to count it among volumes of their libraries. The style is precise and limpid, abundant documentation. With the obviousness a best-seller of its category. Only one word: essential! Philippe Contamine, « La Guerre au Moyen Age », Paris, PUF, réed. 1999. La
Guerre au Moyen Age
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"With
the eyes of the public, the warlike dimension of the Average Western
Age is of a massive obviousness. From this largely shared point
of view, medieval space, the medieval company appear dominated one
by the Castle-extremely, the other by the knight. The present synthesis,
aiming at evoking the war as a phenomenon social and made mentality
through a whole millenium, does not claim to call into question
this vision, but to moderate it, supplement it. It wonders about
the depth of the rupture that the various waves of "great invasions"
involved in the military field, weighs up the forces and the weaknesses
of the armies carolingiennes, points out the warlike context which
surrounded and partly conditioned feudality, examines the changes
in the control of the war which accompanied and caused the growth
of the State. This overflight arises the image of an Average inventive,
complex and mobile Age, or was exerted an art of warfare less frustrates
that it was sometimes thought. The relationship between war and
Christianity is the subject of a detailed attention. Even if the
Christian design guaranteed not only the idea of war right because
necessary but also the idea of holy war forged in the exaltation
of the fight against the forces of the Evil, it had also the smell
and the concern of peace, which was to lead at several currents
hétérodoxes with the clearly expressed concepts of
pacifism and non-violence "
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