http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/bookreviews.htm Recent book reviews posted to the De Re Militari website en-us (C) 2009, De Re Militari saw23@psu.edu (Steve Walton) handcrafted in small bathches http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/BOOKREVPICS/DRM-RSSicon.jpg http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/bookreviews.htm Roger Crowley, Empires of the Seas: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 (Faber&Faber, 2009), 368pp.-- Reviewed by Lee Ruddin. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Crowley_EmpiresoftheSea.htm Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:04:00 EST Fergus Cannan, Galloglass 1250-1600: Gaelic Mercenary Warrior, Warrior 143 (Osprey 2010) 64pp. -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Cannan_Galloglass.htm Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:04:00 EST Anne Curry, The Battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations, PB edition (Boydell, 2009), 487pp. -- Reviewed by Scott Manning. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Curry_BattleofAgincourtPB.htm Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:04:00 EST Flo Keyes, The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages: Connections in medieval romance, modern fantasy, and science fiction (McFarland, 2006), 205pp. -- Reviewed by Val Eads. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Keyes_LiteratureofHope.htm Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:04:00 EST R.B. Scott and N. Gaukroger, Lost Scrolls: The Ancient and Medieval World at War, Field of Glory Gaming Companion 13 (Osprey, 2009), 80pp. -- Reviewed by Gael Grossman. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Scott_LostScrolls.htm Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:04:00 EST Ernle Bradford, Sword And The Scimitar: The Saga Of The Crusades (Pen & Sword, 2004), 192pp. -- Reviewed by Timothy May. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Bradford_SwordScimitar.htm Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:04:00 EST Vladimir Brnardic, Imperial Armies of the Thirty Year's War (1) Infantry and Artillery, Men-at-Arms 457 (Osprey, 2009), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Jay Roberts. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Brnardic_ImpArmies30YW(1).htm Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:04:00 EST John Sadler, Bannockburn: Battle For Liberty (Pen & Sword, 2008), 256pp. -- Reviewed by Compton Reeves. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Sadler_Bannockburn.htm Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:04:00 EST Logan Thompson, Ancient Weapons In Britain (Pen & Sword, 2004), 224pp. -- Reviewed by James Hester. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Thompson_AncientWeaponsBritain.htm Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:04:00 EST Eric McGeer, Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century (Dumbarton Oaks, 1995, 2008), xx+405pp. -- Reviewed by Emilian Kavalski. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/McGeer_SowingDrgTeeth.htm Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:23:00 EST ------- Helen Lacey, The Royal Pardon: Access to Mercy in Fourteenth-Century England, York Medieval Press (Boydell, 2009), 251pp. -- Reviewed by L.J. Andrew Villalon. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Lacey_RoyalPardon.htm Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:04:00 EST J.P.D. Cooper, Thom Richardson, and Graeme Rimer (eds.), Henry VIII: Arms and the Man (Royal Armouries, 2009) -- Reviewed by Steven A. Walton. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Rimer_H8AM.htm Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:04:00 EST Louis Sloos (ed.), Warfare and the Age of Printing: Catalogue of Early Printed Books from before 1801 in Dutch Military Collections (Brill 2008), 4 vols. -- Reviewed by Steven A. Walton. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Sloos_WarfareAgePrinting.htm Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:06:00 EST Stephen Turnbull, The Mongol Invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281, Campaign 217 (Osprey 2010), 96pp. -- Reviewed by Timothy May. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Turnbull_MongolInvJapan.htm Fri, 28 May 2010 10:44:00 EST Abigail Wheatley, The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England, York Medieval Press (Boydell, 2004), 192 pp. -- Reviewed by Craig M Nakashian. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Wheatley_IdeaCastle.htm Fri, 28 May 2010 10:44:00 EST Maribel Fierro and Francisco Garcia Fitz (eds.), El Cuerpo Derrotado: Como Trataban Musulmanes y Cristianos a Los Enemigos Vencidos (Peninsula Iberica, ss.VIII-XIII) (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2008), 633pp. -- Reviewed by Jarbel Rodriguez. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Fierro-Fitz_ElCuerpo.htm Fri, 28 May 2010 10:44:00 EST Ken Mondschein (ed.), Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise, by Camillo Agrippa (Italica Press, 2009), 138pp. -- Reviewed by James Hester. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Mondschein_Fencing.htm Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:54:00 EST Mary Beard, The Roman Triumph (Harvard UP, 2007), 434pp pbk. -- Reviewed by Edward P. Cueva. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Beard_RomanTriumph.htm Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:46:00 EST Christopher Gravett, Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600 (Osprey, 2010), paperback ed., 288pp. [review of HB] -- Reviewed by Peter Sposato. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Gravett_KnightPB.htm Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:35:00 EST Thomas F. Madden, The Fourth Crusade: Event, Aftermath, and Perceptions. Papers from the Sixth Conference of the Socieity for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, Istanbul, Turkey, 25-29 August 2004 (Ashgate, 2008), 208pp. -- Reviewed by Paul Dingman, Craig Nakashian, and Peter Sposato. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Madden_4thCrusade.htm Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:41:00 EST Chris Brown, Bannockburn 1314 (The History Press, 2008), 384pp -- Reviewed by Lee Ruddin. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Brown_Bannockburn1314.htm Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:41:00 EST David Nicolle, Saracen Strongholds 1100-1500: The Central and Eastern Islamic Lands, Fortress 87 (Osprey, 2009), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Muhammed Hassanali. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Nicolle_SaracenStrongholds.htm Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:41:00 EST William R. Short, Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques (Westholm Publishing, 2009), 240pp. -- Rreviewed by James Hester. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Short_VikingWeapons.htm Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:41:00 EST Fernando Gonzelez de Leon, The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567-1659, History of Warfare, 52 (Brill, 2009), xvi+408 pp. -- Reviewed by Brian Ditcham. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/GonzalezdeLeon_Road2Roicroi.htm Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:25:00 -0000 Jeffrey L. Forgeng (ed. and trans.), The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile and Translation of Europea??s Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Royal Armouries MS. I.33 (Chivalry Bookshelf, 2003). 157 pp. -- Reviewed by Valerie Eads http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Forgeng_MedArtSwordsmanship.htm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:09:00 -0000 Ana Echevarria, Knights on the Frontier: The Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467), MEMIW 36 (Brill, 2009), 358pp. -- Reviewed by NicolA?s Agrait http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Echevarria_Knights_Frontier.htm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:09:00 -0000 Gareth C. Sampson, The Defeat of Rome in the East: Crassus, the Parthians, an the Disastrous Battle of Carrhae, 53BC (Casemate 2008), 234pp. -- Reviewed by Lee Ruddin. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Sampson_DefeatRomeEast.htm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:09:00 -0000 David Grummitt, Calais Garrison: War and Military Service in England, 1436-1558 (Boydell and Brewer, 2008), 240pp. -- Reviewed by Mark Charles Fissel. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Grummitt_CalaisGarrison.htm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:09:00 -0000 Iris Shagrir, Ronnie Ellenblum and Jonathan Riley-Smith (eds.), In Laudem Hierosolymitani: Studies in Crusades and Medieval Culture in Honour of Benjamin Z. Kedar (Ashgate, 2007), 492pp. -- Reviewed by Jose Manuel Rodriguez Garcia. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Shagris_InLaudemHierosolymitani.htm Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Stephen Cooper, Sir John Hawkwood: Chivalry and the Art of War (Pen and Sword|Casemate, 2008) -- Reviewed by Peter Sposato. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Cooper_SirJohnHawkwood.htm Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:23:00 -0000 Lise Hull, Understanding the Castle Ruins of England and Wales. How to Interpret the History and Meaning of Masonry and Earthworks (McFarland and Co, 2009), 228pp. -- Reviewed by Ilana C. Krug. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Hull_UnderstandingCastle%20Ruins.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham (eds.), Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks (Ashgate, 2008), 286pp. -- Reviewed by Craig Nakashian. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/BarrowWareham_MythRulershipChurchCharters.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Karl Borchardt, Helen Nicholson, and Nikolas Jaspert (eds.), The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell (Ashgate, 2007), 340 pp. -- Reviewed by Don Kagay. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Borchardt_etal_Hospitallers.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 David Nicolle, The Second Crusade 1148. Disaster Outside Damascus, Campaign 204 (Osprey, 2009), 96pp. -- Reviewed by Lee Ruddin. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Nicolle_SecondCrusade1148.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Kelly DeVries, Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, revised edition, History of Warfare 26 (Brill, 2004), xii+330pp. -- Reviewed by Robert Howell. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/DeVries_CBupdate2004.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Susan Rose (ed.), Medieval Ships and Warfare, International Library of Essays on Military History (Ashgate, 2008), 468pp. -- Reviewed by L.J. Andrew Villalon. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Rose_MedievalShipsWarfare.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Christopher Gravett, The Castles of Edward I in Wales, 1277-1307, Fortress 64 (Osprey, 2007), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Craig Nakashian. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Gravett_CastlesEdwIWales2.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 John R. Kenyon, Castles, Town Defences and Artillery Fortifications in the United Kingdom and Ireland: a Bibliography 1945-2006 (Shaun Tyas/Paul Watkins Publishing, 2008) 740pp. -- Reviewed by Mark Charles Fissel and Steven Walton. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Kenyon_CastlesBiblio.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 JosA(C) Sanchez, Medieval Knights: the Age of Chivalry (Andrea Press/Casemate, 2008) -- Reviewed by Craig Nakashian. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Sanchez_MedievalKnights.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Nicola di Cosmo (ed.), Military Culture in Imperial China (Harvard University Press, 2009), 445pp. -- Reviewed by Kenneth Swope. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/diCosmo_MilCultImpChina.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 W. Sarnecki and D. Nicolle, Medieval Polish Armies 966-1500, Men-at-Arms 445 (Osprey, 2008), 48pp. -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Sarnecki-Nicolle_MedPolish.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Richard Brzezinski, Polish Winged Hussar 1576-1775, Warrior 94 (Osprey, 2006), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Brzezinski_WingedHussar.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 D.S. Richards, The Chronicle of Ibn al-Athir for The Crusading Period from al-Kamil fi'l-Ta'rikh, part 3, the years 589-629/1193-1231: The Ayyubids after Saladin and the Mongol Menace, Crusade Texts in Translation 17 (Ashgate, 2008), 344pp. a?? Reviewed by Timothy May. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Richards_Chronicle3.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Fred M. Donner (ed.), The Expansion of the Early Islamic State, The Formation of the Classical Islamic World 5 (Ashgate Variorum, 2008) 386pp. a?? Reviewed by Lee Ruddin. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Donner_ExpEarlyIslamicState.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Victor Mallia-Milanes (ed.), The Military Orders, Volume 3: History and Heritage (Ashgate, 2008), 328 pp. -- Reviewed by Jose Manuel Rodriguez Garcia. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Mallia-Milanes_MilitaryOrders3.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Susan Rose, Calais: An English Town in France, 1347-1558 (Boydell, 2008), 187pp. -- Reviewed by Ilana Krug. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Rose_Calais.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 David Nicolle, Teutonic Knight: 1190-1561, Warrior 124 (Osprey, 2007), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Daniel Frank. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Nicolle_TeutonicKnight.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Clifford J. Rogers, Soldiers' Lives through History (Greenwood Press, 2007), xxxii+298pp. -- Reviewed by Daniel Frank. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Rogers_SoldiersLives.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 David Simpkin, The English Aristocracy at War: From the Welsh Wars of Edward I to the Battle of Bannockburn (Boydell, 2008), 229pp. -- Reviewed by Brian Ditcham. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Simpkin_EnglishAristos.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Patricia Crone, From Arabian Tribes to Islamic Empire: Army, State and Society in the Near East c.600-850, Variorum CS895 (Ashgate, 2008) 320pp. -- Reviewed by Muhammed Hassanali. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Crone_ArabicTimes.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Peter Jackson (trans.), The Seventh Crusade, 1244-1254: Sources and Documents (Ashgate, 2007), 276pp. -- Reviewed by Timothy May. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Jackson_7thCrusade.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Stephen Allen, Lords of Battle: The World of the Celtic Warrior (Osprey, 2007), 224pp. -- Reviewed by Shaun Bennett. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Allen_LordsOfBattle.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 David Murphy, Condottiere 1300-1500: Infamous Medieval Mercenaries, Warrior 115 (Osprey, 2007), 64pp. -- Reviewed by J. Andrew Villalon. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Murphy_Condottiere.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 David Clark, Barnet - 1471 (Pen and Sword, 2007), 125pp -- Reviewed by Compton Reeves. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Clark_Barnet1471.html Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Simon Millar, Vienna 1683: Christian Europe repels the Ottomans, Campaign 191 (Osprey, 2008), 96pp. -- Reviewed by Paul Crawford. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Millar_Vienna1683.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Christopher Gravett, Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600 (Osprey, 2008), 288pp. -- Reviewed by Matthieu Chan Tsin. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Gravett_KnightNobleWarrior.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 John F. Moffitt, The Enthroned Corpse of Charlemagne: the Lord-in-Majesty Theme in Early Medieval Art and Life (McFarland, 2006), 239pp. -- Reviewed by Irene GonzA?lez Hernando. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Moffitt_EnthronedCorpse.htm Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:09:00 -0000 Photeine B. Perra, O Leon enantion tes Emiseleniou: O Protos Beneto-Othomanikos Polemos kai e katalepsi tou Elladikou khorou (1463-1479) [Relations between the Knight Hospitallers of Rhodes and Venice during the First Venetian-Ottoman War] -- Reviewed by Juho Wilskman. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Perra_OLeon.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:39:00 -0000 Timothy Dawson, Byzantine Infantryman: Eastern Roman Empire c.900-1204, Warrior 118 (Osprey, 2007), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Russ Goodrich. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Dawson_ByzantineInfantryman.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:39:00 -0000 Judi Upton-Ward (ed.), The Military Orders Volume 4: On Land and by Sea (Ashgate, 2008), 310pp. -- Reviewed by Jarbel Rodriguez. http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Upton-Ward_MilitaryOrders4.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:39:00 -0000 Jonathan Cooper, Scottish Renaissance Armies 1513-1550 (Osprey, 2008), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Steven Gunn. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/3669/09.09.06.html?sequence=1 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0000 Helene Couderc-Barraud, La violence, l'ordre et la paix. Resoudre les conflits en Gascogne du XIe au debut de XIIIe siecle (Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2008), 377pp. -- Reviewed by George T. Beech https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/4579/09.11.03.html?sequence=1 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:00:00 -0000