To pass this course it is not obligatory to attend the previous lecture - Introduction to European military history I., however it is highly recommended due to complexity of the subject.

This course requires good base knowledge of European history and may help you to prepare for the Comprehensive exam in European history you have to pass during your pre-gradual studies here at this faculty.

* Lectures and topics

1) Crusades in the Middle East 1095-1291

Source texts:

a) Smail: Crusading Warfare 1097-1193, Chap. I-VI.

2) The Age of tradition in Western Europe I. - 900-1300

Source texts:

a) Kaeuper: Chivalry and violence in Medieval Europe. Chap. 1, 7, 8, 9.

b) Keen: Medieval Warfare. Chap. 2, 4, 6.

3) The Age of tradition in Western Europe II. - 1300-1500

Source texts:

a) Keegan: The Face of Battle. 2) Agincourt (73-112)

b) Villalon: The Hundred Years War. Part 5, Rogers: Henry V´s Military Strategy in 1415 (p. 399-428), Clements: Wielding the Weapons of War (447-476).

c) Villalon: The Hundred Year War, Vol II. Part II: „Agincourt and its Aftermath“

4) Italian wars

Source texts:

a) Mallet – Shaw: The Italian Wars. Chap. 6: The transformation of war, Chap. 7: The resources of war

b) Shaw: Italy and the European Powers. Pepper: The Face of the Siege (33-56), Mallet: The transformation of war (4-21).

5) Dutch military reforms during 1590s

Source texts:

a) Nimwegen: The Dutch army and the military revolutions, 1588-1688. Chap. 2. The Dutch Army and the Revolution in Infantry Tactics (1592-1618), Chap. 3. Field operations (1590-1648)

b) Hart: The Dutch Wars of Independence. Introduction, Chap 2, 3.

6) Problems of cultural history of Thirty Years´ war

Source texts:

a) Cramer: The Thirty Years War and German Memory. Introduction and Chap. 1, 2, 4 and Conclusion.

7) Military enterprise during Thirty Years´ war

Source texts:

a) David Parrot: The Business of War. Chap. 2. The expansion of military enterprise 1560-1620, Chap. 4. The military contractor at war

8) Venice and Mediterranean culture of war in early modern Europe

Source texts:

a) Mallet a Hale. The Military Organization of a Renaissance State, Venice c. 1400-1617. Alternatively either the whole Part 1 (1400-1525) or Part II. (1509-1617) Chap. 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15.

9) France, military revolutions and absolutist monarchy

Source texts:

a) Lynn: Giant of the Grand Siecle. Alternatively Part One and Two (Administration and supply) OR Part One and Part Four (the Rank and File) OR Part One and Part Five (The Practice of War)

10) Great Northern War: Russia and its military way to the West

Source texts:

a) Frost: Northern Wars. Introduction, Chap. 9, 10, 11.

b) Duffy: Russia´s Military Way to the West. Chap. 2.

11) The theory of fiscal-military state in early modern Europe

Source texts:

a) Glete: War and the State in Early Modern Europe, Prologue, Chap. 1, Chap. 2 and alternatively Chap. 3 (Spain) OR Chap. 4 (Netherlands) OR Chap. 5 (Sweden).

12) The theory of military revolution in early modern Europe

Source texts:

a) Rogers, ed. The Military Revolution Debate. Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe. Sec. I. Paradigms, Chap. 1, 2, 3, 4.