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Welcome to
the Medieval Logistics Research Group
Movement, Demography and Warfare
This project run by the
University of Princeton and the
Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at Birmingham University will examine
three levels at which logistics need to be understood: the physical basis of
logistics, the organisational structures evolved by different societies and
economic systems to meet logistical demands, and the ways in which different
societies responded to warfare and the need to organise for it (and how this
inflected social organisation more widely). The project will examine the shared
organisational imperatives with regard to defensive and offensive warfare of the
three zones, and set out some alternative approaches to the study and
understanding of warfare and medieval societies in the wider sense. The results
of the project will have significant implications for the study of other
pre-industrial societies, both methodologically and in theoretical terms. Since
the project will establish the material - physical - base for the study
of these themes across the three regions, this will be its initial emphasis and
priority, with warfare taking a relatively secondary position until a later
phase
This project sets out to analyse the
logistics of East Roman,early medieval western European
(Lombard, Frankish), and early Islamic (Umayyadand Abbasid
to ca. 1000) warfare in all its aspects (cultural,
technological,organisational). The project will examine
three levels at which logistics needto be understood: the
physical basis of logistics, the organisational
structuresevolved by different societies and economic
systems to meet logistical demands,and the ways in which
different societies responded to warfare and the need
toorganise for it (and how this inflected social
organisation more widely).
This international
project includes experts from the USA, UK, France,
Germany, Austria and Greece. Logistics in the widest
sense is crucial to understanding the way pre-modern
societies worked. Using advanced computer-modelling
techniques, GIS and related spatial modeling approaches,
the project will analyse the physical basis of
logistics, the organisational structures evolved by
different socio-economic systems to meet logistical
demands, and the ways in which different societies
responded to warfare and the need to organise for
it. Its results will have significant implications for
the study of all pre-modern societies
An
interdisciplinary and international co-operative project
Princeton University
and the
Institute for Archaeology & Antiquity, University of
Birmingham/UK
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