Warfare has been central to European history for millennia; Twenty
Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe examines the strategy, military and
equipment and battle-tactics of European armies in the Middle Ages. Its
fundamental aim is to stimulate the reader's interest in the importance
of pitched battles in war, and to explain the geo-political gravity of
twenty of them from the Battle of Frigidus in AD394 to the Battle of
Varna in 1444, taking in such key battles as Hastings in 1066 and
Bouvines in 1214.