Without the complex military machine that his forebears had built up over the course of the eighth century, it would have been impossible for Charlemagne to rev

Charlemagne's Early Campaigns is the first book-length study of Charlemagne at war. The neglect of this subject has truncated our understanding of the Carolingi

Warfare was an integral part of early medieval life. This book looks at warfare in a rounded context in the British Isles and Western Europe between the end of

This richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.1500). The per

This volume examines the use of the textual resources of the past to shape cultural memory in early medieval Europe.