Faculty Book-Length Publications (selected works)

Culture and Customs of South Africa

by Funso Afolayan
Greenwood Press, 2004


excerpt from book cover:  With the demise of Apartheid in 1994, South Africa can be considered the newest of African nations. It is the economic powerhouse of southern Africa, as well as one of the continent's most ethnically, culturally, and linguistically varied countries. This inclusive overview is an essential, substantial introduction to South Africa today. The volume provides an historical context that unites the varied strands of South African, from Afrikaner to Indian and Zulu.

Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany

by David S. Bachrach
Boydell & Brewer, 2012


excerpt from book cover: This book shows how Henry I and Otto I, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, recreated the empire of Charlemagne, and established themselves as the hegemonic rulers in Western Europe. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization, training, morale, tactics, and strategy of Ottonian armies over a long half century. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including exceptionally important information developed through archaeological excavations, it demonstrates that the Ottonian kings commanded very large armies in military operations that focused primarily on the capture of fortifications, including many fortress cities of Roman origin. This long-term military success shows that Henry I and Otto I, building upon the inheritance of their Carolingian predecessors, and ultimately that of the late Roman empire, possessed an extensive and well-organized administration, and indeed, bureaucracy, which mobilized the resources that were necessary for the successful conduct of war.

 

Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany, ca. 1000
On the Variety of Our Times by Alpert of Metz (Mediaeval Sources in Translation)

translated with an introduction by David S. Bachrach
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012


excerpt from book cover: Written in the early eleventh century, the De diversitate temporum by Alpert of Metz is an indispensable contemporary account for our understanding of the history of the Low Countries at the turn of the first millennium, and provides insight into the organization of the German kingdom at a point of transition that was marked by the end of the Ottonian dynasty.

Saladin: The Sultan and His Times, 1138-1193

by Hannes Möhring
translated by David S. Bachrach
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008


excerpt from book cover:  Known in the West as a "noble heathen," the great Muslim sultan Saladin led Muslim forces in the reconquest of the Crusader kingdoms and captured Jerusalem in 1187. This concise history traces Saladin's role in the contest between Islam and Christianity during the twelfth century. Following the Sultan's life from the rise of the Crusader states through his triumph over the Franks to the Third Crusade, Möhring elucidates the sultan's accomplishments in uniting much of the Middle East, his enlightened relationship with European opponents, and the unique legacy of his rule in the Middle East and beyond. This faithful English-language translation also includes an introduction that places Saladin in his geographic, political, and cultural context.

Religion and the Conduct of War: c. 300-c. 1215

by David S. Bachrach
The Boydell Press, 2003

 

excerpt from book cover: This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of the dynamic interpenetration of religion and war in the West during almost a thousand years, from the accession of Constantine the Great in the early fourth century until the eve of the Fourth Lateran Council in the early thirteenth. With its often new interpretations of a vast array of sources, Religion and the Conduct of War has much to say to historians and others on the nature of war and its relationship with faith.




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