David S Bachrach
Biographic Data
| ID | 266828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Bachrach |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Bachrach |
| SIGNATURE | BACHRACH D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Hampshire at Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8996-7650 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I. Comital Courts and Royal Justice c. 1024–c. 1106
It is a truism that the Carolingian-style comital office, in the sense of a governmental position whose holder was appointed by the ruler and carried out the ruler’s policies, had ceased to exist in the German kingdom by the early decades of the twelfth century. However, the beginning of this process of dissolution remains highly contested. Some scholars argue that counts ceased to be government officials in any meaningful sense in East Francia a…
II. The Advocate’s Office and Royal Justice in East Francia and the German Kingdom, c. 800–c. 1125
The office of the advocate has received enormous scholarly attention since the later nineteenth century. In his recent monograph on this subject, Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe: A Thousand Year History , Jonathan Lyon has sought to provide a fundamentally new approach by emphasizing the ways in which the office of the advocate can be used to understand conflicts among numerous holders of power, both secular and ecclesiastic…
Karl der skrupellose Große
Gerhard Lubich, Heinrich V. Der Letzte Salierkaiser Freiburg im Breisgau
Several of the events leading up to and during the reign of Henry V (1106–1125) have received considerable scholarly attention. These include the young Henry’s decision to rebel against his father Henry IV (1056–1106), the imprisonment by the German king of Pope Pascal II (1099–1118) in 1111, the Concordat of Worms (1122) that was negotiated with Pope Calixtus II (1119–1124), and the ill-fated invasion of the French kingdom in 1124. By contrast, …
Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia, by Matthew Bryan Gillis
Journal Article Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia, by Matthew Bryan Gillis Get access Religious Horror and Holy War in Viking Age Francia, by Matthew Bryan Gillis (Budapest: Trivent, 2021; pp. 158. €79). David S Bachrach David S Bachrach University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead053, https://doi.o…
Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe
Journal Article Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region, 1250–1850 Get access Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region, 1250–1850. By Sander Govaerts. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press. 2021. viii + 309 pp. €99.00 (hardback); open access (e-book). David S Bachrach David S Bachrach University of New Hampshire, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German…
Private club culture in London and New York during the Victorian era
The private club literature is disparate and rarely draws comparisons between or among club cultures. In this article, club culture in New York and London are compared. Specifically, the history of private clubs in London and New York is explored, focusing on the latter part of the nineteenth century. Historical documents are reviewed in an attempt to establish the club culture in the respective cities, how clubs were viewed within their communit…
Continuity of Carolingian Judicial Institutions in Ottonian Lotharingia
The institution of the scabini , men from the pagus who served as legal fact finders in comital courts, was established by Charlemagne in the later eighth century and has received considerable attention from scholars for well over a century. Much of the early debate about the scabini focused on the origins of the institution, and whether Charlemagne was successful in replacing the previous ad hoc administration of justice with more formal procedu…
Christoph Haack, Die Krieger der Karolinger. Kriegsdienste als Prozesse gemeinschaftlicher Organisation um 800. (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Bd. 115.) Berlin/Bosto…
Article Christoph Haack, Die Krieger der Karolinger. Kriegsdienste als Prozesse gemeinschaftlicher Organisation um 800. (Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Bd. 115.) Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter 2020 was published on April 1, 2021 in the journal Historische Zeitschrift (volume 312, issue 2)
Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400–c.1453
Warfare in Medieval Europe, now in its second edition, offers considerably more attention to the transition from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages, the composition of the armies of the opponents of the West, and the experience of commanders and individual combatants on the battlefield. This second revised and expanded edition provides a more in-depth thematic discussion of the nature and conduct of war, with an emphasis on its overa…
A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages
Erik Hermans (ed.), A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages, Leeds (Arc Humanities Press) 2020, X–564 p., 17 maps (Arc Companions), ISBN 978-1-94240175-9, GBP 145,00.
Military Cultures and Martial Enterprises in the Middle Ages
Essays on aspects of medieval military history, encompassing the most recent critical approaches.
Military Intelligence and Long-Term Planning in the Ninth Century
Historians of warfare in the western tradition have devoted considerable attention to the problem of military intelligence from the Greek and Persian wars of the fifth century B.C.E. up to the recent past. Strikingly absent from this conversation, however, has been the treatment of the acquisition and analysis of information for military purposes in pre-Crusade Europe, particularly in the Carolingian and immediate post-Carolingian world. In part,…
Royal Justice, Freedom, and Comital Courts in Ottonian Germany
The free population of the early medieval German kingdom largely has disappeared from the historiographical tradition due to the influence of the New Constitutional History and its contemporary intellectual successors. One important result of this writing out of history of the free has been a thorough distortion of the roles and purposes of the royal government, and the relationship between the ruler and his free subjects. This essay seeks to red…
Ritterhelden
The late fourteenth century saw the emergence of a new literary genre that focused on the heroic deeds of members of the lower nobility, with an emphasis on their roles as knights. In this revised version of his Freiburg dissertation, Gero Schreier examines a selection of these knightly biographies, produced in France and Germany from the late fourteenth through the early sixteenth century. He argues, against much of the preceding scholarship, th…
Goal!
Milites and Warfare in Pre-Crusade Germany
Despite considerable scholarly attention to the issue, there remains considerable controversy regarding the meaning of the term miles in pre-Crusade Europe, with many historians asserting that milites were knights, who dominated warfare through the practice of equestrian combat. This study seeks to examine the ways in which the main narrative sources for the German kingdom in the second half of the eleventh century use the term miles (plural mili…
Bruno of Merseburg and his historical method, c .1085
Bruno of Merseburg wrote his history of the war between the Saxons and King Henry IV c.1085. Scholars generally have treated Bruno's text as a polemic and consequently of relatively little historical value except insofar as it corroborates material found in other contemporary sources such as Lampert of Hersfeld's more highly regarded Annales. The main historical value of Bruno's text has been seen in his embedding of some two dozen letters in his…
H enry I of G ermany's 929 military campaign in archaeological perspective
In 929, K ing H enry I of G ermany (919–36) launched an exceptionally successful offensive against the S lav polities along the length of his eastern frontier. This campaign, which is recorded in contemporary written accounts, has long been known to historians, and its importance in the political history of the G erman kingdom is undisputed. However, to date, there is no book‐length or article‐length study devoted to H enry's military successes i…
Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany
A complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication of the administration involved. Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, Henry I (919-936) and Otto I (936-973), waged war across the length and breadth of Europe. Ottonian armies campaigned from the banks of the Oder in the east to the Seine in the west, and from the…
Military Chaplains and the Religion of War in Ottonian Germany, 919–1024
The Ottonian kings of Germany (919–1024) inherited from their Carolingian predecessors a tripartite system of pastoral care for the army. At the most basic level, the Ottonian kings provided chaplains to their soldiers to hear their confessions before battle. At the army-wide level, priests and bishops serving with the army celebrated intercessory masses to gain divine favour for the army, preached to the soldiers in order to encourage bravery in…
The Written Word in Carolingian-Style Fiscal Administration under King Henry I, 919-936
Journal Article The Written Word in Carolingian-Style Fiscal Administration under King Henry I, 919–936 Get access David S. Bachrach David S. Bachrach University of New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 399–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghq108 Published: 01 December 2010
Kaiser Friedrich II (1194-1250)
Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250) is numbered among the most consequential rulers of the medieval millennium. Described as a marvel of the world (stupor mundi) in his own day, for a brief moment Frederick managed to forge an empire that rivalled that of Charlemagne, encompassing the kingdoms of Germany, Burgundy, Lombardy, and Sicily, as well as Jerusalem. Frederick's court at Palermo welcomed Christian, Muslim, and Jewish scholars alike. The empe…
Exercise of royal power in early medieval Europe
Current scholarly orthodoxy holds that the German kingdom under the Ottonians ( c. 919–1024) did not possess an administration, much less an administrative system that relied heavily upon the ‘written word’. It is the contention of this essay that the exercise of royal power under Otto the Great (936–73) relied intrinsically on a substantial royal administrative system that made very considerable use of documents, particularly for the storage of …
Konflikt und Ritual im Herrschaftsbereich der frühen Capetinger
Conforming with the Rhetorical Tradition of Plausibility
Notwithstanding warrior inured to fear by his lust for violence and booty that still prevails in parts of the academy, medieval soldiers were just as frightened as modern soldiers of mutilation, death, and damnation.1 One of the most difficult problems common to the medieval and the modern commander is ensuring the high morale of his troops as they go into battle. Whatever the comparative size or equipment of the opposing forces, the willingness …
Saxon military revolution, 912–973
For more than a generation Karl Leyser's influential thesis, which credited Henry I with undertaking a military revolution which made possible the Saxon dynasty's rule of Francia orientalis, has dominated the scholarly literature. According to Leyser, Henry radically reformed the Saxon military by building a large force of heavily armed mounted fighting men. These men provided the means necessary to assure Saxon domination. It is argued here, by …
Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400–c.1453
Warfare in Medieval Europe, now in its second edition, offers considerably more attention to the transition from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages, the composition of the armies of the opponents of the West, and the experience of commanders and individual combatants on the battlefield. This second revised and expanded edition provides a more in-depth thematic discussion of the nature and conduct of war, with an emphasis on its overa…
The organisation of military religion in the armies of King Edward I of England (1272-1307)
King Edward I of England (1272-1307) was an exceptionally capable leader both on the battlefield and in the organisation of the bureaucratic institutions necessary for the successful pursuit of his military objectives. The military history of Edward's reign has benefited from extensive scholarly attention, particularly with regard to matters such as military recruitment, battlefield strategy, and logistics. However, one major lacuna has been an e…
H enry I of G ermany's 929 military campaign in archaeological perspective
In 929, K ing H enry I of G ermany (919–36) launched an exceptionally successful offensive against the S lav polities along the length of his eastern frontier. This campaign, which is recorded in contemporary written accounts, has long been known to historians, and its importance in the political history of the G erman kingdom is undisputed. However, to date, there is no book‐length or article‐length study devoted to H enry's military successes i…
Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany
A complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication of the administration involved. Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, Henry I (919-936) and Otto I (936-973), waged war across the length and breadth of Europe. Ottonian armies campaigned from the banks of the Oder in the east to the Seine in the west, and from the…
Exercise of royal power in early medieval Europe
Current scholarly orthodoxy holds that the German kingdom under the Ottonians ( c. 919–1024) did not possess an administration, much less an administrative system that relied heavily upon the ‘written word’. It is the contention of this essay that the exercise of royal power under Otto the Great (936–73) relied intrinsically on a substantial royal administrative system that made very considerable use of documents, particularly for the storage of …
English Artillery 1189-1307
Journal Article English Artillery 1189–1307: The Implications of Terminology Get access David Stewart Bachrach David Stewart Bachrach University of New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006, Pages 1408–1430, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cel284 Published: 01 December 2006
The organisation of military religion in the armies of King Edward I of England (1272-1307)
King Edward I of England (1272-1307) was an exceptionally capable leader both on the battlefield and in the organisation of the bureaucratic institutions necessary for the successful pursuit of his military objectives. The military history of Edward's reign has benefited from extensive scholarly attention, particularly with regard to matters such as military recruitment, battlefield strategy, and logistics. However, one major lacuna has been an e…
Conforming with the Rhetorical Tradition of Plausibility
Notwithstanding warrior inured to fear by his lust for violence and booty that still prevails in parts of the academy, medieval soldiers were just as frightened as modern soldiers of mutilation, death, and damnation.1 One of the most difficult problems common to the medieval and the modern commander is ensuring the high morale of his troops as they go into battle. Whatever the comparative size or equipment of the opposing forces, the willingness …
Die Kämpfe der Herrscher und der Heiligen
Military Logistics during the Reign of Edward I of England, 1272-1307
Logistics, the administrative systems by which military forces are supplied, played a crucial role in the conduct of medieval warfare. This was certainly true of the royal armies dispatched by King Edward I of England (r. 1272-1307) to fight campaigns in Gascony, Flanders, Wales, and Scotland. This study focuses on the administrative and bureaucratic systems developed by the English royal government to keep tens of thousands of soldiers supplied …
Making Peace and War in the 'City State' of Worms, 1235-1273
Specialists working on the western medieval empire have long identified the cities of Northern Italy as politically precocious in comparison with contemporary cities in the German kingdom. In particular, scholars have emphasized the development of de facto, if not de jure, sovereignty in the cities of Lombardy and Tuscany, including Florence, Sienna, and particularly Milan, based on their ability to make peace and wage war on their own behalf wit…
English Artillery 1189-1307
Journal Article English Artillery 1189–1307: The Implications of Terminology Get access David Stewart Bachrach David Stewart Bachrach University of New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006, Pages 1408–1430, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cel284 Published: 01 December 2006
Das Heilige Römische Reich
Saxon military revolution, 912–973
For more than a generation Karl Leyser's influential thesis, which credited Henry I with undertaking a military revolution which made possible the Saxon dynasty's rule of Francia orientalis, has dominated the scholarly literature. According to Leyser, Henry radically reformed the Saxon military by building a large force of heavily armed mounted fighting men. These men provided the means necessary to assure Saxon domination. It is argued here, by …
Henry I
Urban military forces of England and Germany C. 1240–C. 1315, a comparison
This chapter highlights the essential features of urban military forces in England and Germany with the intention of drawing some comparisons and contrasts. These two kingdoms, of course, were organized on very different political and constitutional foundations, which had substantial influence on the organization of urban fighting forces. The chapter concludes with some observations concerning the differences as well as the similarities in the ur…
Wettkampf der Nationen
Gunpowder, Explosives, and the State
Reviewed by: Gunpowder, Explosives, and the State: A Technological History David Stewart Bachrach (bio) Gunpowder, Explosives, and the State: A Technological History Edited by Brenda J. Buchanan. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. xxiii+425. $99.95. This volume, the second collection of its type, had its origins in four gatherings of historians of gunpowder that met between 1996 and 2002 under the auspices of the International Committee for the …
The Middle Ages . Clifford J. Rogers
Exercise of royal power in early medieval Europe
Current scholarly orthodoxy holds that the German kingdom under the Ottonians ( c. 919–1024) did not possess an administration, much less an administrative system that relied heavily upon the ‘written word’. It is the contention of this essay that the exercise of royal power under Otto the Great (936–73) relied intrinsically on a substantial royal administrative system that made very considerable use of documents, particularly for the storage of …
Konflikt und Ritual im Herrschaftsbereich der frühen Capetinger
The Social Structure of the First Crusade. (The Medieval Mediterranean
The Written Word in Carolingian-Style Fiscal Administration under King Henry I, 919-936
Journal Article The Written Word in Carolingian-Style Fiscal Administration under King Henry I, 919–936 Get access David S. Bachrach David S. Bachrach University of New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 399–423, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghq108 Published: 01 December 2010
Kaiser Friedrich II (1194-1250)
Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250) is numbered among the most consequential rulers of the medieval millennium. Described as a marvel of the world (stupor mundi) in his own day, for a brief moment Frederick managed to forge an empire that rivalled that of Charlemagne, encompassing the kingdoms of Germany, Burgundy, Lombardy, and Sicily, as well as Jerusalem. Frederick's court at Palermo welcomed Christian, Muslim, and Jewish scholars alike. The empe…
Military Chaplains and the Religion of War in Ottonian Germany, 919–1024
The Ottonian kings of Germany (919–1024) inherited from their Carolingian predecessors a tripartite system of pastoral care for the army. At the most basic level, the Ottonian kings provided chaplains to their soldiers to hear their confessions before battle. At the army-wide level, priests and bishops serving with the army celebrated intercessory masses to gain divine favour for the army, preached to the soldiers in order to encourage bravery in…
Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany
A complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication of the administration involved. Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, Henry I (919-936) and Otto I (936-973), waged war across the length and breadth of Europe. Ottonian armies campaigned from the banks of the Oder in the east to the Seine in the west, and from the…
H enry I of G ermany's 929 military campaign in archaeological perspective
In 929, K ing H enry I of G ermany (919–36) launched an exceptionally successful offensive against the S lav polities along the length of his eastern frontier. This campaign, which is recorded in contemporary written accounts, has long been known to historians, and its importance in the political history of the G erman kingdom is undisputed. However, to date, there is no book‐length or article‐length study devoted to H enry's military successes i…
Bruno of Merseburg and his historical method, c .1085
Bruno of Merseburg wrote his history of the war between the Saxons and King Henry IV c.1085. Scholars generally have treated Bruno's text as a polemic and consequently of relatively little historical value except insofar as it corroborates material found in other contemporary sources such as Lampert of Hersfeld's more highly regarded Annales. The main historical value of Bruno's text has been seen in his embedding of some two dozen letters in his…
Goal!
Milites and Warfare in Pre-Crusade Germany
Despite considerable scholarly attention to the issue, there remains considerable controversy regarding the meaning of the term miles in pre-Crusade Europe, with many historians asserting that milites were knights, who dominated warfare through the practice of equestrian combat. This study seeks to examine the ways in which the main narrative sources for the German kingdom in the second half of the eleventh century use the term miles (plural mili…
Ritterhelden
The late fourteenth century saw the emergence of a new literary genre that focused on the heroic deeds of members of the lower nobility, with an emphasis on their roles as knights. In this revised version of his Freiburg dissertation, Gero Schreier examines a selection of these knightly biographies, produced in France and Germany from the late fourteenth through the early sixteenth century. He argues, against much of the preceding scholarship, th…
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