{"product_id":"the-medieval-siege","title":"The Medieval Siege","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn medieval warfare  the siege predominated: for every battle  there were hundreds of sieges. Yet the rich and vivid history of siege warfare has been consistently neglected. Jim Bradburys panoramic survey takes the history of siege warfare in Europe from the late Roman Empire to the 16th century  and includes sieges in Byzantium  Eastern Europe and the areas affected by the Crusades. Within this broad sweep of time and place  he finds  not that enormous changes occurred  which might have been expected  but that the rules and methods of siege warfare remained remarkably constant. His narrative of the main events of siege warfare includes adetailed study of some of the major sieges Constantinople and Chateau-Gaillard  among others  and also presents evidence relating to the development of siege weapons and siege warfare. A history of sieges necessarily brings the people caught up in them  besieger and besieged  clearly before the reader; stories from chronicles and letters of danger  famine  endurance and heroism reach out with an immediacy that provides a powerful human context for this study.JIM BRADBURY is the author of The Medieval Archer; he writes and lectures on battles and warfare in England and France in the middle ages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952015339573,"sku":"ByrdShop_0851153127","price":72.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780851153124.jpg?v=1770148478","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-medieval-siege","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}