East meets West: Mounted Encounters in Early and High Mediaeval Europe

By the Late Middle Ages, mounted troops - cavalry in the form of knights - are established as the dominant battlefield arm in North-Western Europe. This paper considers the development of cavalry after the Germanic Barbarian Successor Kingdoms such as the Visigoths in Spain or the Carolingian Franks...

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Main Author: Gassmann Jürg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2017-05-01
Series:Acta Periodica Duellatorum
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/apd.2017.5.issue-1/apd-2017-0003/apd-2017-0003.xml?format=INT
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