What are the various conclusions, insights and arguments made by historians over the nature of different wars in the middle ages?

Historiography (How Do Modern Historians Interpret Medieval Warfare)

For this order need a 10 page historiography paper about how modern historians (secondary sources) interpret medieval warfare. The main questions that should be answered are:

What are the various conclusions, insights and arguments made by historians over the nature of different wars in the middle ages? [what do these historians say about what medieval war was exactly? its composition, its way of fighting, what made it distinct?]

What aspect of war causes [religion see Riley Smith, for example], motivation [how do the historians on the list argue for different motives], technology [ [atrocities, for example in the crusades; rules of war]], conduct, on the ground experience do different historians focus on? [how do they compare and contrast with each other]]

And how do the particular wars they study Crusades, 100 Years’ War shape their analysis? [eg, how does studying the First Crusade inform the authors analysis?]

The sources you should use are listed below. You can find all of these online but can find some in your local library if need be.

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The Crusades A History. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
Runciman, Steven. A History of the Crusades. London: Penguin Classics, 2016.
Robert Bartlett, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993)
Giles Constable, “The Historiography of the Crusades,” in The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World , ed.
Angeliki E. Laiou, Roy P. Mottahedeh (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2001), pp. 1-22

Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 1999)

Contamine, Phillipe. War in the Middle Ages Bachrach

David Stewart. Religion and the Conduct of War c. 300-c.1215. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell, 2003.

DeVries, Kelly. Medieval Military Technology (1992)

Keen, Maurice. Medieval Warfare: A History (1999)

Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The First Crusaders (1998)

What are the various conclusions, insights and arguments made by historians over the nature of different wars in the middle ages?
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