SHIELD WALL: How Did It WORK?
412In so many movies and TV series we see armies forming a wall of shields. But how much truth is there in this tactic from a historical perspective? And is it accurately portrayed on film?
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Primary sources, essays and insights:
Bachrach D. S., Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany, 2012
Bradbury J., The Medieval Siege, 1992
Jean V de Bueil, Le jouvencel, c. 1466.
Cassius Dio, Roman History, 3rd century AD.
Caesar, De bello gallico, 1st century BC.
Christine de Pizan, Le Livre des Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, 1404
Christine de Pizan, Le Livre des Faits d'armes et de chevalerie, 1410
Flavius Mauricius Tiberius, Strategikon, 6th century AD.
Muir W., The Life of Mahomet and History of Islam to the Era of the Hegira: With Introductory Chapters on the Original Sources for the Biography of Mahomet and on the Pre-Islamite History of Arabia, 1961
Plutarch, Life of Antony, 1st-2nd century AD.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:31 The origins of the shield wall
05:40 The Roman testudo formation
08:51 The shield wall in the Middle Ages
10:43 False myths about the shield wall
15:28 The decline of these tactics
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Background music: "Battlefield" e "The Vikings" di Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
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