Burgundian wars. Volume 3. Part 1. Army of the Grand Dukes of the West

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Burgundian wars. Volume 3. Part 1. Army of the Grand Dukes of the West

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This book is dedicated to the armed forces of the Burgundian state, the largest principality in Western Europe in the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries. In the first part, for the first time in Russian, the various components of the Burgundian army are comprehensively considered - the feudal militia, the city police, mercenaries, ordinance companies, guards ... The knightly cavalry and ordinance gendarmes, archers, pikemen, crossbowmen, artillerymen, engineering units and the fleet - this is the tool by which the Burgundian dukes, or Grand Dukes of the West, as they were called, asserted their political will on the battlefields. The richest illustrative series of the book is combined with numerous tables, diagrams, fragments of documents and military regulations. The author gives 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 lists of names of soldiers. In addition, along with the army of the Burgundian dukes, the book covers issues related to the armed forces of France, England, Italy and the Swiss Confederation. The sufficiently complete preservation of the Burgundian archives allows us to document the short but bright history of the army of the Burgundian dukes of the Valois dynasty. Turning to documents helps to dispel the romantic veil that wraps such an not quite correct concept as “knight's army”. But what could be more useful than getting rid of illusions?

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Publication language: Russian

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