Series: Routledge Library Editions: Military and Naval History

Many of the combatants in the European wars of the late Middle Ages fought for their own gain, but they observed a code of regulations, part chivalrous and part commercial, which they called the 'law of arms'. The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages, originally published in 1965, examines this soldiers’ code to understand its rules and how...

This volume, originally published in 1987, fills a gap in a neglected area. Looking at the entire war in the Mediterranean, the volume examines the war from the viewpoint of all the important participants, making full use of archives and manuscript collections in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria and the United States. A fascinating mosaic of campaigns emerges in the...