Warfare in the Middle Ages

4 credits · Undergraduate

This class will examine different aspects of warfare from the Germanic invasions of the fourth and fifth centuries through the Hundred Years War of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We will also discuss the Viking invasions (especially in England), the Third Crusade, weaponry, army recruitment and size, castle construction, and siege weaponry and tactics. Special attention will be given both to the details of logistics and warfare’s broader social and political contexts, as well as the role of warfare in the development of states.