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William Urban explores the vital importance of the mercenary to the medieval power-broker, from the Byzantine Varangian Guard to fifteenth-century soldiers of fortune in the Baltic. Through contemporary chronicles and the most up-to-date scholarship, he presents an in-depth portrait of the mercenary across the Middle Ages.Urban, William is the author of 'Medieval Mercenaries The Business of War', published 2006 under ISBN 9781853676970 and ISBN 1853676977.
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