Hausarbeit Thema Belagerung im Mittelalter?
Guten Tag,
ich würde gern eine Hausarbeit über das Belagern von Städten und Burgen im Mittelalter schreiben. Allerdings fehlt mir hierfür eine interessante wissenschaftliche Frage die ich in meiner Arbeit beantworten könnte. Fällt jemandem zufällig was ein?
3 Antworten
- Was waren die entscheidenden Faktoren für den Sieg der Verteidiger?
- Lässt sich das Lanchester-Gesetz durch geeignete Modifizierungen auf ein mittelalterliches Belagerungsgefecht übertragen?
- Wie relevant war für den Erfolg des Belagerers der Einsatz neuerer Belagerungswaffen, wie z.B. der Tribock?
- Wie stark überlegen musste ein erfolgreicher mittelalterlicher Angreifer gegenüber dem Verteidiger sein, um dessen Befestigungen zu kompensieren?
Etwas reißerisches wie "Die Brug - eine unüberwindbare Verteidigung?" vielleicht?
Und falls du der englischen Sprache mächtig bist, hier ein vermutlich echt gutes Video zu dem Thema:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc2o9mknM-Y&t=
Gruß Than
ich würde gern eine Hausarbeit über das Belagern von Städten und Burgen im Mittelalter schreiben.
Oha, das ist aber kein leichtes Thema. Was willst du denn darstellen? Hast du ein bestimmtes Belagerungsbeispiel im Auge? Und welche Literatur hast du zur Verfügung? Erst, wenn du darüber genauere Auskunft gibt, kann man dir zu dieser Aussage Ratschläge erteilen:
Allerdings fehlt mir hierfür eine interessante wissenschaftliche Frage die ich in meiner Arbeit beantworten könnte.
Eine Bemerkung dazu: es ist nicht üblich und auch nicht möglich, dass Schüler in einer Hausarbeit eine "wissenschaftliche Frage" bearbeiten. Wissenschaft gerade im speziellen Falle ist allein eine Aufgabe von Historikern und Archäologen. Es würde ja auch eine "gute Frage" reichen, nicht wahr. 🙂
MfG
Arnold
Ja, als ein Beispiel kann man das durchaus nehmen. Einige Belagerungstechniken sind zumindest kurz angedeutet. Allerdings gab es noch andere, sogar "biologische" Belagerungstechniken, und der Bericht, wenn ich es nicht überlesen habe, erwähnt zwar Belagerungsmaschinen, aber leider ohne nähere Details. Du könntest die Belagerung Nicaeas vielleicht mit einem anderen Belagerungsbericht vergleichen und Gemeinsamkeiten oder Unterschiede herausstellen. Ich empfehle gerne, nach historischen Ereignissen aus der Region zu suchen. Gab es in deiner Gegend eine Stadt oder Burg, die im Mittelalter erobert wurde?
Als Frage im Hinblick auf das von dir gewählte Beispiel wäre möglich: Mit welchen Mitteln konnten scheinbar uneinehmbare Befestigungen im (Hoch-)Mittelalter überwunden werden?
Ich möchte gerne meine Frage wiederholen: welche Literatur zum mittelalterlichen Belagerungswesen willst du benutzen?
Super das ist ein guter Anfang, vielen Dank!
bisher:
olaf Wagener: der umkämpfte Ort
jim Bradbury: the medieval siege
paul Bentley Kern: ancient siege warfare
Ah, Wagener kenne ich, die beiden englischen Autoren leider nicht. Wagener hat auch einige Bücher über Burgen geschrieben - und auch eines über Aborte/Abtritte herausgegeben.
Übrigens sollte dich auch dieses von Wagener herausgegebene Buch interessieren, weil es genau dein Thema trifft:
Vielleicht wäre auch das ein interessantes Buch:
hallo! Hatte eventuell an folgende Darstellung von Raymond d‘ Augiliers gedacht (1. Kreuzug, Belagerung von Nicea)
Thereupon, we crossed the sea and went up to Nicaea. For the Duke, Bohemund, and the other princes had preceded the Count and were engaged in the labors of the siege. The city of Nicaea is very strongly fortified by nature, as well as by art. It has on the west a very large lake flowing up to the wall; on the remaining three sides is a moat filled with the overflow of certain little streams; in addition, it is encircled by walls so high that neither the assaults of men nor the attacks of any machine are feared. Indeed, the ballistae of the neighboring towers are so turned with reference to one another that no one can approach without danger; however, if anyone wants to approach nearer, he is easily overwhelmed from the top of the towers without being able to retaliate.
Accordingly, this city, such as we have described, was besieged by Bohemund from the north, by the Duke and the Alemanni from the east, by the Count and Bishop of Puy from the middle, for the Count of Normandy was not yet with us. But we believe this one incident should not be passed over - that when the Count was about to encamp there with his men, the Turks, descending from the mountains in two squadrons, attacked our army. Their plan, indeed, was that while one party of the Turks assailed the Duke and the Alemanni who were on the east, the other party, entering the middle gate of the city and passing out through another, would easily drive our men from the camp at a time when they were not expecting such an attack. But God, who is wont to reverse the plan of the impious, so altered their preparations that, as if it had been arranged, He sent the Count, who was preparing to encamp with his men, upon the squadron of Turks which was now about to enter the city. He put them to flight at the first charge and, after killing several, pursued the rest to the top of the mountain. The other party of Turks which wanted to attack the Alemanni was put to flight in the same way and destroyed. After this, machines were constructed and the wall attacked in vain, for it was very firm against us and was valiantly defended by arrows and machines. So we fought five weeks with no result. At length, through God's will, some men of the household of the Bishop and the Count dangerously enough approached the comer tower which faced the east, and having made a testudo, they began, after a struggle., to undermine one of the towers and by digging threw it to the ground. Thus the city would have been taken, had not the shadows of night prevented. However, the wall was rebuilt during the night, and this rendered our former labor vain. At length the city, terrified with fear, was compelled to surrender. One reason was that the ships of the Emperor which had been dragged over the land were let down into the lake. They therefore gave themselves up to the Emperor, since they now expected no further aid and saw the army of the Franks increasing daily, while they were cut off from their forces. The Count of Normandy had come. Alexius had promised the princes and the people of the Franks that be would give them all the gold, silver, horses, and goods within (the city), and that be would establish there a Latin monastery and hospice for the poor Franks; besides, that be would give to each one of the army so much of his own possessions that they would always want to fight for him. Accordingly, the Franks, placing faith in these promises, approved the surrender. And so, when Alexius had received the city, be afforded the army such an example of gratitude that as long as they live the people will curse him and proclaim him a traitor.
We recognized, then, that the Emperor had betrayed Peter the Hermit, who had long before come to Constantinople with a great multitude. For he compelled him, ignorant of the locality and of all military matters, to cross the Strait with his men and exposed them to the Turks. Moreover, when the Turks from Nicea saw that unwarlike multitude, they cut them down without effort and delay to the number of sixty thousand. The rest, indeed, fled to a certain fortified place and escaped the swords of the Turks. The Turks, made bold and haughty by this, sent the arms and the captives which they had taken there to the Saracens and the nobles of their own race, and they wrote to the peoples and cities far off that the Franks were of no account in battle.