Burgundian Wars. Volume 3. Part 1. The Army of the Grand Dukes of the West
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Burgundian Wars. Volume 3. Part 1. The Army of the Grand Dukes of the West
39.99 €
This book is devoted to the armed forces of the Burgundian state, the largest principality of Western Europe in the XIV-XV centuries. In the first part, for the first time in Russian, the various components of the Burgundian army - feudal militia, urban militia, mercenaries, ordonnance companies, guards... The knights' cavalry and ordonnance gendarmes, archers, pikemen, crossbowmen, artillerymen, engineering units and the navy - this is the instrument by which the Burgundian dukes or Grand Dukes of the West, as they were called, asserted their political will on the battlefields. The rich illustrative range of the book is combined with numerous tables, diagrams, fragments of documents and military statutes. The author provides biographies of marshals, captains, mercenaries, and ordinary soldiers. Admirers of microhistory will find in the text unique information about the combat path of certain units, including the name lists of soldiers. In addition, along with the army of the Dukes of Burgundy, the book covers the armed forces of France, England, Italy and the Swiss Confederation. Sufficiently complete preservation of the Burgundian archives allows documenting the short but vivid history of the army of the Burgundian dukes of the Valois dynasty. Reference to documents helps to dispel the romantic flair, which is shrouded in such a not quite correct concept as "knightly army". But what could be more useful than getting rid of illusions?
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