Abstract
Medieval Germany was wracked by civil war throughout the 1060s–1080s. Among our best sources for this conflict is Bruno of Merseburg, whose historical work The Saxon War treats many aspects of the wars between King Henry IV (1056–1106) and his opponents. Unfortunately, neither this text nor the military history of Germany in the eleventh century have received much attention from scholars focusing on the nature and conduct of war. The burden of this study, therefore, is to illuminate Bruno’s treatment of military matters, and consider how his work can be used to understand warfare in eleventh-century Germany.
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David S. Bachrach and Bernard S. Bachrach, “Bruno of Merseburg’s Saxon War: A Study in Eleventh-Century German Military History,” The Journal of Military History 81, no. 2 (April 2017): 341–367.