1st Edition

Chronicling Warfare in the Thirteenth-Century German Empire

Edited By David S. Bachrach Copyright 2027
184 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume offers an annotated translation and commentary on five thirteenth-century narrative accounts of the battles of Steppes (1213), Ane (1227), and Hausbergen (1262) as well as the overall political and military circumstances in which they occurred. These battles have received some scholarly attention, but the broader military organization of the German kingdom as well as the conduct of... Read more

Acknowledgments 

List of Maps

 

Introduction 

Triumph of Saint Lambert in Steppes by Hervard 

A Certain Account about Groningen, Drenthe, Coevorden, And about Various other Places under Various Bishops of Utrecht. 

Walter’s War

Appendix 1: Excerpt of the Annales sive chronica sancti Iacobi Leodiensis by Reiner 

Appendix 2: Excerpt from Gesta Senoniensis ecclesiae by Richer of Senones 

 

Bibliography 

Index

Biography

David Stewart Bachrach is a professor of medieval history at the University of New Hampshire, USA. His research focuses on the administrative and military history of Carolingian and German Empires as well as the kingdom of England in the thirteenth and early fourteenth century. His recent publications include Armies and Warfare in Carolingian East Francia and Ottonian Germany (2026), Warfare in the Global Middle Ages with Bernard S. Bachrach (2025), and The Foundations of Royal Power in Early Medieval Germany: Material Resources and Governmental Administration in a Carolingian Successor State (2022)