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Medieval warfare was such a supremely practical art that it may seem perverse to begin by considering theory. It is true that theory and practice were often far apart, yet the theory forms a basis from which the practice can be considered.
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Vegetius, De re militari, translated as Epitome of Military Science, trans. N. P. Milner, 2nd edn (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996)
Jean Flori, Idéologie du glaive: préhistoire de la chevalerie (Geneva: Droz, 1983)
Jean Flori, L’Essor de la chevalerie, Xle-XIIe siècles (Geneva: Droz, 1986)
Jean Flori, Chevaliers et chevalerie au moyen âge (Paris: Poche, 1998)
Jean Flori, La guerre sainte. La formation de l’idée de croisade dans l’Occident chrétien (Paris: Aubier, 2001)
Maurice Keen, The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages (London: Routledge, 1965)
Maurice Keen, Chivalry (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984)
Maurice Keen, Nobles, Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages (London: Hambleton Press, 1996)
Peter Noble, ‘Military Leadership in the Old French Epic’, Reading Around the Epic: A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wolfgang van Emden, ed. Marianne Ailes, Philip E. Bennett and Karen Pratt (London: King’s College London, Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1998), pp. 171–91
Jonathan Riley-Smith, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading (London: Athlone, 1986)
Frederick H. Russell, The Just War in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975)
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Nicholson, H. (2004). The theory of warfare. In: Medieval Warfare. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-4386-6_2
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