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- Peter
Hoskins, In the Steps of the Black Prince:
The Road to Poitiers, 1355-1356 (Boydell, 2011) 274 pp. -- Reviewed
by Mollie Madden.
- David
Santiuste,
Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses (Pen & Sword,
2010), 208pp. -- Reviewed by Compton Reeves.
- A.J.
Pollard, John Talbot And The
War In France 1427-1453 (Pen & Sword, 2005), 172pp. -- Reviewed
by Ken Madison.
-
Stephane
William Gondoin, The Siege Of
Orleans And The Loire Campaign 1428-1429, Men and Battles 6
(Histoire and Collections, 2010), 160pp. -- Reviewed by Brian Ditcham.
- Christian
Teutsch,
Victory at Poitiers (Penn & Sword,
2010), 224pp. -- Reviewed by Ken Mondschein.
- L.J.A
Villalon and D.J. Kagay (eds.), The
Hundred Years War (part II) , History of Warfare 51 (Brill
2008), 480pp. -- Reviewed by Daniel Franke.
- Anne
Curry, The Battle of Agincourt:
Sources and Interpretations , PB edition (Boydell, 2009), 487pp.
-- Reviewed by Scott Manning.
- David
Grummitt, The Calais Garrison:
War and Military Service in England, 1436-1558 (Boydell
& Brewer, 2008), 240pp. -- Reviewed by Mark Charles Fissel.
- Hélène
Couderc-Barraud, La
violence, l'ordre et la paix. Résoudre les conflits en Gascogne
du XIe au début de XIIIe siècle (Toulouse: Presses
universitaires du Mirail, 2008), 377pp. -- Reviewed by George T. Beech
- Susan
Rose,
Calais: An English Town in France, 1347-1558 (Boydell,
2008), 187pp. -- Reviewed by Ilana
Krug.
- Michael
K. Jones, Agincourt 1415 - A Battlefield
Guide (Pen and Sword, 2005), 192pp. -- Reviewed by
Lee Ruddin.
- Robert
Douglas Smith and Kelly DeVries, The
Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy 1363-1477 (Brill,
2005), 377pp. -- Reviewed by Pete Burkholder.
- Andrew Ayton and Philip Preston, et
al. , The Battle of Crecy, 1346 , Warfare
in History (Boydell, 2005), xii+390pp. -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani.
- Stephen W. Richey, Joan
of Arc: The Warrior Saint (Praeger, 2003), x+175
pp. -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani
- Randall Fegley, The Golden
Spurs of Kortrijk (McFarland, 2002), 242pp. --
Reviewed by Mark Charles Fissel.
- L.J. Andrew Villalon and Donald
J. Kagay (eds.), The Hundred Years War: a wider focus ,
History of Warfare 25 (Brill, 2005), lv+520pp. -- Reviewed by Brian
Ditcham.
- David Nicolle, Poitiers
1356 , Campaign 138 (Osprey, 2004), 96pp.
-- Reviewed by Brian Ditcham
- Anne Curry, The Battle of
Agincourt. Sources and Interpretations (Boydell,
2000), 490pp. -- Reviewed by Cliff Rogers.
- Eric Jager, The Last Duel:
A true story of crime, scandal, and trial by combat in medieval
France (Broadway, 2004), 242pp. -- Reviewed by
Brian Ditcham
- Denise Baker (ed.), I nscribing
the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures (SUNY,
2000) -- Reviewed by Andrew J. Villalon
- From Crécy to Mohács:
Warfare in the Late Middle Ages (1346-1526) ACTA,
22nd Congress of the International Commission for Military History
(Vienna: Heersgeeschichte Museum, 1997), 408pp. [contributions
in English, German, French, and Spanish] -- Reviewed by Brian D.H.
Ditcham
- Steven Muhlberger, Jousts
and Tournaments: Charny and the Rules for Chivalric Sport in Fourteenth-Century
France -- Reviewed by Andy
King
- Catherine Hanley, War
and Combat 1150-1270: The Evidence from Old French Literature (Brewer,
2003) -- Reviewed by Steve Muhlberger
- Anne Curry, The
Battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations --
Reviewed by Malcolm Vale (Albion )
- Christopher Allmand (ed.), War, Government
and Power in Late Medieval France --
Reviewed by Clifford Rogers
- Anne Curry (ed.), Agincourt
1415: Henry V, Sir Thomas Erpingham and the triumph of the
English archers -- Reviewed by
David Grummitt
- Randall Fegley, The
Golden Spurs of Kortrijk: How the Knights of Flanders Fell
to the Foot Soldiers of Flanders in 1302 --
Reviewed by Susan Rose
- Kelly DeVries, Joan
of Arc: A Military Leader --
Reviewed by Dawn Drumin (King's College - Women's History Resources
Site)
- Kelly DeVries, Joan
of Arc: A Military Leader --
Reviewed by Margaret Sankey
- Frank Barlow (ed.), The "Carmen
de Hastingae Proelio" of Guy Bishop of Amiens --
Reviewed
by John Howe
- J.F.Verbruggen, The
Battle of the Golden Spurs: Courtrai, 11 July 1302 --
Reviewed by Susan Rose
- Clifford Rogers, War
Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy Under Edward III, 1327-1360 --
Reviewed by Adrian Bell
- Clifford Rogers, War
Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 --
Reviewed by Stephen Morillo (Albion )
- Clifford Rogers, War
Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 --
Reviewed by Maurice Keen (English
Historical Review )
- Clifford Rogers, War
Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360 --
Reviewed by Michael Prestwich (Reviews
in History )
- Kelly
DeVries, Infantry
Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century: Discipline, Tactics, and
Technology --
Reviewed by Sean Mcglynn (English Historical Review )
- Leah Shopkow (trans.), Lambert
of Ardres: The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres --
Reviewed by Jean Dunbabin (English Historical Review )
- Jonathan
Sumption, The
Hundred Years War: Volume Two, Trial by Fire --
Reviewed by David Green
- Anne
Curry, The
Battle of Agincourt: Sources and Interpretations --
Reviewed by Malcolm Vale (English
Historical Review )
- Constance
Brittain Bouchard, "Strong
of Body, Brave and Noble": Chivalry and Society in Medieval
France --
Reviewed by Mary Alberi (The Historian )
- Donald
Featherstone, Bowmen
of England (Pen & Sword, 2003), 164pp. -- Reviewed by Ilana
Krug.
- Peter
Rex,
1066: A New History Of The Norman Conquest (Amberly,
2010) 336pp. -- Reviewed by John Hosler.
- Ian
Soden,
Ranulf De Blondeville: The First
English Hero (Amberly, 2010), 176pp. -- Reviewed by Peter Sposato.
- John
Sadler,
Second Baron’s War: Simon
De Montfort And The Battles Of Lewes And Evesham (Pen & Sword,
2008), 192pp. -- Reviewed by Ilana Krug.
- Paddy
Griffith,
The Viking Art of War (Casemate
Publishing, 2009), 224pp. -- Reviewed by Ilana Krug.
- Angus
Konstam,
Strongholds of the Picts: The
Fortifications of Dark Age Scotland , Fortress 92 (Osprey
2010), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Russ Goodrich.
- Fergus
Cannan, Galloglass 1250–1600:
Gaelic Mercenary Warrior , Warrior 143 (Osprey 2010) 64pp. --
Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani.
- John
Sadler, Bannockburn: Battle For
Liberty (Pen & Sword, 2008), 256pp. -- Reviewed by Compton
Reeves.
- Chris
Brown, Bannockburn 1314 (The
History Press, 2008), 384pp -- Reviewed by Lee Ruddin.
- Jonathan
Cooper, Scottish
Renaissance Armies 1513-1550 (Osprey, 2008), 64pp. -- Reviewed
by Steven Gunn.
- David
Grummitt, The Calais Garrison:
War and Military Service in England, 1436-1558 (Boydell
& Brewer, 2008), 240pp. -- Reviewed by Mark Charles Fissel.
- Stephen
Cooper, Sir
John Hawkwood: Chivalry and the Art of War (Pen&Sword/Casemate,
2008) -- Reviewed by Peter Sposato.
- 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.
- Susan
Rose,
Calais: An English Town in France, 1347-1558 (Boydell,
2008), 187pp. -- Reviewed by Ilana
Krug.
- Christopher
Gravett, Knight: Noble
Warrior of England 1200-1600 (Osprey, 2008), 288pp.
-- Reviewed by Matthieu Chan Tsin
- David Clark, Barnet
- 1471 (Pen & Sword, 2007),
125pp -- Reviewed by Compton Reeves.
- Christopher Gravett, The
Castles of Edward I in Wales 1277-1307 , Fortress
64 (Osprey, 2007), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Victora Bandt.
- James Miller, Swords for
Hire: The Scottish Mercenary (Birlinn, 2007), xxv+292pp.
-- Reviewed by Brian Ditcham.
- Douglas
Biggs, Three Armies in Britain: The
Irish Campaign of Richard II and the Usurpation of Henry IV, 1397-99 , History
of Warfare 39 (Brill, 2006), xvi+300 pp -- Reviewed by Compton Reeves.
- Frank
D. Reno, The Historic King Arthur: Authenticating
the Celtic Hero of Post-Roman Britain (1996; McFarland
2003), 458pp -- Rreviewed by Ilana Krug.
- Benton Rain Patterson, Harold
and William: The Battle for England, A.D. 1064-1066 (Cooper
Square Publishers, 2001), 209pp. -- Reviewed by Cason Snow.
- Ian Howard, Swein
Forkbeard's Invasions and the Danish Conquest of England, 991-1017 (Boydell,
2003), 203pp. -- Reviewed by Cason Snow.
- Chris Brown, Robert
the Bruce: A Life Chronicled (Tempus, 2004),
416pp. -- reviewed by Elizabeth Schevtchuk-Armstrong.
- Andy King (ed. and trans.), Sir
Thomas Gray Scalacronica 1272-1363 ,
Surtees Society v. 209 (Brill, 2005), 288pp. -- Reviewed by Cliff
Rogers.
- Chris Brown, William
Wallace: The True Story of Braveheart (The Mill,
Brimscombe Port, Stroud, 2005) 287 pp. -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani.
- Margaret L. Kekewich
and Susan Rose, France & the
Empire 1350-1500 (Palgrave
MacMillan, 2005), xxiii+308pp. -- Reviewed by Brian G.H. Ditcham
- J.O. Prestwich (ed. Michael
Prestwich), The Place of War in English History, 1066-1214 (Boydell,
2004), xxiii+138pp. -- Reviewed by Donald Flemming
- Frances Stonor Saunders, Hawkwood:
Diabolical Englishman (Faber & Faber, 2004),
366pp -- Reviewed by Sergio Montovani
- M.K. Lawson, The Battle of
Hastings, 1066 (Tempus, 2002) -- Reviewed by
Peter Konieczny
- Mark
Charles Fissel, English Warfare, 1511-1642 (Routledge,
2001. 352 pp) (see
also Fissel's home
page for 3 more).
- David Worthington, Scots
in Habsburg Service, 1618-48 (Brill) -- Reviewed
by Mark Charles Fissel
- Towton 1461 (Osprey Campaign
120), by Christopher Gravett --
Review ed by A. Compton Reeves
- The Second Scottish Wars of Independence ,
by Chris Brown -- Reviewed by Clifford Rogers
- The Wars of the Roses 1455-1485 ,
by Michael Hicks -- Reviewed by David Grummitt
- The Scottish Civil War: The Bruces & the
Balliols & the War for Control of Scotland ,
by Michael Penman -- Reviewed by R. Andrew McDonald
- Armies
and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience ,
by Michael Prestwich -- Reviewed by Andrew Ayton (English
Historical Review )
- Warfare
Under the Anglo-Norman Kings, 1066-1135 ; Nobles,
Knights and Men-at-Arms in the Middle Ages; and Arms,
Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War -
combined review by Sean McGlynn (History Today )
- War and Society in Medieval and Early
Modern Britain , edited by Diana Dunn --
Reviewed by A. Compton Reeves
- Agincourt 1415: Henry V, Sir Thomas
Erpingham and the triumph of the English archers ,
edited by Anne Curry -- Reviewed by David Grummitt
- The
War of the Roses , by A.J. Pollard --
Reviewed by Sean Cunningham (English Historical Review )
- Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle ,
by Michael K. Jones -- Reviewed by David Grummitt
- The Knights Templar in Britain ,
by Evelyn Lord - reviewed by Steven Isaac
- Early
Medieval Ireland, 400-1200, by Daibhi O Croinin -- Reviewed
by Dorothy C. Africa
- English
Warfare, 1511-1642, by Mark Charles Fissel- reviewed
by Barbara Donagan
- Surviving
the Tudors: The 'Wizard' Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland,
1537-1586, by Vincent P. Carey -- Reviewed by Carole
Levin
- The
Reign of Richard Lionheart: Ruler of the Angevin Empire, 1189-1199,
by Ralph V. Turner and Richard H. Heiser -- Reviewed by
James Bothwell
- Warriors
of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade,
by James Reston, Jr. -- Reviewed by Michael Pedrotty
- England's
Colonial Wars 1550-1688: Conflicts, Empire and National Identity,
by Bruce Lenman -- Reviewed by Pádraig Lenihan
- The
Anglo-Scots Wars, 1513-1550: A Military History, by Gervase Phillips
-- Reviewed by Barrett L. Beer
- War
Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy Under Edward III, 1327-1360 ,
by Clifford Rogers -- Reviewed by Adrian Bell
- The
Wars of Edward III :
Sources and Interpretations , edited by
Clifford Rogers -- Reviewed by Sean Mcglynn (History
Today )
- The
Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations ,
edited by Clifford Rogers -- Reviewed by Benjamin Thompson
(English Historical Review )
- War
and Chivalry. The Conduct and Perception of War in England and
Normandy, 1066-1217 , by Matthew Strickland --
Reviewed by Sean Mcglynn (English Historical Review )
- The
Anglo-Scots Wars 1513-1550: A Military History, by
Gervase Phillips -- Reviewed by Barrett L. Beer
- Kings
in the North: the House of Percy in British History, by
Alexander Rose -reviewed by Jonathan Sumption ( The
Guardian )
- English
Warfare: 1511-1642 , by Mark Charles Fissel --
Reviewed by C.S.L. Davies (English Historical Review )
- The
Household Knights of King John , by S.D.
Church -- Reviewed by Heather Tanner
- The
Black Douglases. War and Lordship in Late Medieval Scotland, 1300-1455 ,
by Michael Brown -- Reviewed by Jenny Wormald (English
Historical Review )
Germany / North Sea / Scandianvia
- David
Nicolle,
Teutonic Knight: 1190-1561 ,
Warrior 124 (Osprey, 2007), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Daniel
Frank.
- Simon
Coupland, Carolingian
Coinage and the Vikings: Studies on Power and Trade in the 9th Century (Ashgate,
2007), 336pp -- Reviewed by Stephen McCauley.
- David
Lindholm and David Nicolle, The
Scandinavian Baltic Crusades 1100-1500 , illustrated
by Angus McBride (Osprey, 2007), 48pp -- Reviewed by Dana Cushing.
- Vickie L. Ziegler, Trial
By Fire and Battle in Medieval German Literature (Camden
House, 2004), 234pp. -- Reviewed by John France
- Ships and Men in the Late Viking
Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions and Skaldic Verse , by
Judith Jesch -- Reviewed by Susan Rose
- Ships
and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscriptions
and Skaldic Verse, by Judith Jesch --
Reviewed by Margaret Clunies Ross
- Ships
and Men in the Late Viking Age: The Vocabulary of Runic Inscription
and Skaldic Verse , by Judith Jesch --
Reviewed by Eric Christiansen (English Historical Review )
- The
Norsemen in the Viking Age , by Eric Christiansen --
Reviewed by Margaret Clunies Ross
- �grip
af N�regskonungas�gum: A Twelfth-Century Synoptic History of the
Kings of Norway , edited by Matthew James
Driscoll -- Reviewed by Kari Ellen Gade (Alv�ssm�l )
- Bloodtaking
and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland ,
by William Ian Miller -- Reviewed by Gunnar Karlsson (Alvissmal )
Italy/Spain/Mediterranean
Italy
- Michael
Mallett,
Mercenaries And Their Masters:
Warfare In Renaissance Italy (Pen & Sword, 2009), 304pp.
-- Reviewed by Cliff Rogers.
- Stephen
Cooper, Sir
John Hawkwood: Chivalry and the Art of War (Pen&Sword/Casemate,
2008) -- Reviewed by Peter Sposato.
- Niccolò Machiavelli, Art
of War , trans. Christopher Lynch (University
of Chicago Press, 2003), 312pp. -- Reviewed by L.J. Andrew
Villalon.
- Christine Shaw (ed.), Italy
and the European Powers: The Impact of War, 1500-1530 ,
History of Warfare 38 (Brill, 2006) -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani.
- Francesco Ambrogiani, Vita
di Costanzo Sforza (1447-1483) Pesaro città e
contà, Link 3 (Pesaro: Società pesarese di studi
storici, 2003). 277pp. -- Reviewed by Sergio Montovani.
- Enrica Guerra, Soggetti
a “ribalda fortuna”. Gli uomini dello stato estense
nelle guerre dell’Italia quattrocentesca, Temi
di storia 74 (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2005) 347 pp. -- Reviewed by
Sergio Mantovani.
- Sergio Mantovani, "Ad
honore del signore vostro patre et satisfactione nostra".
Ferrante d'Este condottiero di Venezia (Modena-
Ferrara: Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Antiche Province Modenesi,
2005) 158pp -- Reviewed by Brian Ditcham.
- Luigi Guicciardini, The Sack of Rome ,
translated by James H. McGregor -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani
- Mercenary Companies and the Decline
of Siena , by William Caferro --
Reviewed by Brian G. H. Ditcham
- Mercenary
Companies and the Decline of Siena , by
William Caferro -- Reviewed by Bernard S. Bachrach (The
Historian )
- Mercenary
Companies and the Decline of Siena , by William Caferro --
Reviewed by Carla Sodini
- The
Twilight of a Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats and European
Conflicts, 1560-1800, by Gregory Hanlon --
Reviewed by W. M. Reger IV
Spain
- Joseph
F. O'Callaghan, The Gibraltar
Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait (Univ. Pennsylvania
Press, 2010), 392pp. -- Reviewed by Dana Cushing.
- Noel Fallows, Jousting
in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia (Boydell & Brewer, 2011),
574pp. -- Reviewed by Teofilo F. Ruiz. [TMR 11.07.28].
- Ana
Echevarría,
Knights on the Frontier: The Moorish
Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467) ,
MEMIW 36 (Brill, 2009), 358pp. -- Reviewed by Nicolás Agrait
- Gutierre Diaz de Gamez, The Unconquered
Knight: A Chronicle of the Deeds of Don Pero Niño, Count of
Buelna (1928; Boydell 2004), xv+232pp. -- Reviewed by L.J.
Andrew Villalon.
- Alberto
Montaner Frutos and Alfonso Boix Jovaní, Guerra
en Sarq Al'andalus: Las batallas cidianas de Morella (1084) y Cuarte
(1094) (Zaragoza, 2005), 342pp. -- Reviewed by Don
Kagay
- L.J. Andrew Villalon and Donald
J. Kagay (eds.), The Hundred Years War: a wider focus ,
History of Warfare 25 (Brill, 2005), lv+520pp. -- Reviewed by Brian
Ditcham.
- Three
books for the military history of medieval Spain -
reviewed by Jos � Manuel Rodr�guez Garc�a
- Chronicle of Alfonso X , translated
by Shelby Thacker and Jos � Escobar --
Reviewed by Donald Kagay
- 12 de Septiembre de 1213. El Jueves
de Muret , by Martin Alvira Cabrer --
Reviewed by Jos� Manuel Rodr�guez Garc�a
- Guerra y relaciones pol�ticas. Castilla-Le�n
y los musulmanes, ss. XI-XIII , by Francisco
Garc�a Fitz -- Reviewed by Jose Manuel Rodriguez Garcia
- Lacruz
y la espada , by Gonzalo Mart�nez D�ez -- Reviewed by
Jos� Manuel Rodr�guez Garc�a
- Castilla
y Le�n frente al Islam. Estrategias de expansi�n y t�cticas militares
(siglos XI-XIII), by Francisco Garcia Fitz -- Reviewed
by Jos� Manuel Rodr�guez Garc�a
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