The Lords of Battle: Image and Reality of the Comitatus in Dark-Age Britain

First study of the Dark Age comitatus, or warband, drawing evidence from literary and historical sources.

The Lords of Battle examines the image of the comitatus, or warband, as it is portrayed in literary and historical sources from Britain's early medieval period, attempting to determine the extent to which it reflectsan historical reality. Through an extensive use of a variety of source material, literary, historical, and archaeological, the book investigates both the structure of the war...