John of Salisbury
Subtitle: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789004226630
Subjects: Military art and science, history; Europe, history, military; Religious literature, history and criticism
Description: The English scholar John of Salisbury was a major intellectual of the twelfth century whose contributions to the fields of education, grammar, political theory, and rhetoric are well-known. His significance is amplified further in this book, in which John D. Hosler examines his heretofore overlooked contributions to the ideals and practice of medieval warfare. This book surveys an array of military topics present within John's extant corpus, including generalship, strategy, tactics, logistics, military organization, and training; it also collates John's military lexicon and charts the influence of classical texts upon his conceptualization of war. John of Salisbury, it argues, deserves inclusion in the roll-call of military theoreticians and writers of pre-Reformation Europe.