Medieval Warfare Book Reviews

• bibliographic, historiography
• general medieval
• collected works

• arms&armour
• naval
• castles&sieges

• including Islam, Byzantium, and the Slavic World

• including the Hundred Years War

• including the Wars of the Roses

Full list of reviews: Alphabetical by Author

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New DRM Reviews

(titles without links means the review is in formatting and will appear shortly)

• William R. Short, Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques (Westholm Publishing, 2009), 240pp. -- Rreviewed by James Hester.
• Photeinê B. Perra, O Leôn enantion tês Êmiselêniou: O Protos Beneto-Othomanikos Polemos kai ê katalêpsi tou Elladikou khôrou (1463-1479) [Relations between the Knight Hospitallers of Rhodes and Venice during the First Venetian-Ottoman War] -- Reviewed by Juho Wilskman.
• Timothy Dawson, Byzantine Infantryman: Eastern Roman Empire c.900-1204, Warrior 118 (Osprey, 2007), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Russ Goodrich.
• Judi Upton-Ward (ed.), The Military Orders Volume 4: On Land and by Sea (Ashgate, 2008), 310pp. -- Reviewed by Jarbel Rodriguez.
• Fernando González de León, 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.
• Jonathan Cooper, Scottish Renaissance Armies 1513-1550 (Osprey, 2008), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Steven Gunn.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• David Grummitt, The Calais Garrison: War and Military Service in England, 1436-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 2008), 240pp. -- Reviewed by Mark Charles Fissel.

Recent Medieval Military Reviews

• Juan Abellán Pérez, ed. Joseph Ángelo Dávila, Historia de Xerex de la Frontera (Helsinki: Academia Scientarum Fennica, 2008) 298pp. -- Reviewed by Donald J. Kagay [TMR 10.01.13]
• 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.
• Ana Echevarría and Marti Beagles, trans., Knights on the Frontier:The Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467) (Brill, 2009) -- Reviewed by Hussein Anwar Fancy [TMR 10.01.03]
• Christopher Tyerman, God's War: a New History of the Crusades (Harvard University Press, 2008) -- Reviewed by Nikolaos G. Chrissis [TMR 10.01.01]
• Jeffrey L. Forgeng (ed. and trans.), The Medieval Art of Swordsmanship: A Facsimile & Translation of Europe’s Oldest Personal Combat Treatise, Royal Armouries MS. I.33 (Chivalry Bookshelf, 2003). 157 pp. -- Reviewed by Valerie Eads
• David Potter, Renaissance France at War: Armies, Culture and Society, c. 1480-1560 (Boydell Press, 2008), xvii+405pp. -- Reviewed by John Gagné
• Stephen Cooper, Sir John Hawkwood: Chivalry and the Art of War (Pen&Sword/Casemate, 2008) -- Reviewed by Peter Sposato.
• Lise Hull, Understanding the Castle Ruins of England and Wales. How to Interpret the History and Meaning of Masonry and Earthworks (McFarland & Co, 2009), 228pp. -- Reviewed by Ilana C. Krug.
• Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham (eds.), Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks (Ashgate, 2008), 286pp. -- Reviewed by Craig Nakashian.
• 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.

• Keith Durham, Strongholds of the Border Reivers: Fortifications of the Anglo-Scottish Border 1296-1603(Osprey, 2008), 64pp. -- to be reviewed by Steven A. Walton.
• Paul Wagner & Stephen Hand, Medieval Sword And Shield: The Combat System of Royal Armouries MS I.33 (Chivalry Bookshelf, 2009), 278pp. -- to be reviewed by Amy West.
• L.J.A Villalon and D.J. Kagay (eds.), The Hundred Years War (part II), History of Warfare 51 (Brill 2008), 480pp. -- to be reviewed by Daniel Franke.
• Flo Keys, The Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages: Connections in medieval romance, modern fantasy, and science fiction (McFarland, 2006), 205pp. -- to be reviewed by Val Eads.
• Stephen Turnbull, Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (2), Fortress 19 (Osprey, 2004), 64pp. -- to be reviewed by
• Jonathan Cooper, Scottish Renaissance Armies 1513-1550, illus. by Graham Turner, Elite 167 (Osprey, 2008), 64pp. -- to be reviewed by
• 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. -- to be reviewed by Steven A. Walton.
• Mary Beard, The Roman Triumph(Harvard UP, 2007), 434pp pbk. -- to be reviewed by Edward P. Cueva.
• 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. -- to be reviewed by Craig M Nakashian.
• J. Wilkinson-Latham, Discovering Edged Weapons, Shire Classics (Shire Publications, 2009), 64pp. -- to be reviewed by Ilana Krug.
• Fergus Cannan, Scottish Arms and Armour (Shire Books, 2009), 120pp. -- to be reviewed by Ilana Krug.
• J.P.D. Cooper, Thom Richardson, and Graeme Rimer (eds.), Henry VIII: Arms and the Man (Royal Armouries, 2009) – to be reviewed by Steven A. Walton.
• Paddy Griffith, The Viking Art of War (Casemate Publighing, 2009), 224pp. -- to be reviewed by Ilana Krug.
• Chris Brown, Bannockburn 1314 (The History Press, 2008), 384pp [NOTE: this is an eBook/PDF only, though the book has been released in HB and PB] -- to be reviewed by Lee Ruddin.
• David Nicolle, Saracen Strongholds 1100-1500: The Central and Eastern Islamic Lands, Fortess 87 (Osprey, 2009), 64pp. -- to be reviewed by Muhammed Hassanali.
• Eric McGeer, Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century (Dumbarton Oaks, 1995, 2008), xx+405pp. -- to be reviewed by Emilian Kavalski.
• Maribel Fierro and Francisco García Fitz (eds.), El Cuerpo Derrotado: Cómo Trataban Musulmanes y Cristianos a Los Enemigos Vencidos (Peninsula Iberica, ss.VIII-XIII) (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2008), 633pp. -- to be reviewed by Jarbel Rodriguez.
• Simon Phillips, The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England (Boydell, 2009), xiv+210pp. -- to be reviewed by Stephen Mossman.
• Christopher Gravett, Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600 (Osprey, 2010), paperback ed., 288pp. [review of HB] -- to be reviewed by Peter Sposato.
• R.B. Scott and N. Gaukroger, Lost Scrolls: The Ancient and Medieval World at War, Field of Glory Gaming Companion 13 (Osprey, 2009), 80pp. -- to be reviewed by Scott Manning.
• Ken Mondschein (ed.), Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise, by Camillo Agrippa (Italica Press, 2009), 138pp. -- to be reviewed by James Hester.

DRM Books Available for Review

Links here are to the publisher's website for the book, if available.

• Vladimir Brnardic, Imperial Armies of the Thirty Year's War (1) Infantry and Artillery, Men-at-Arms 457 (Osprey, 2009), 64pp.
• Stephen Turnbull, The Mongol Invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281, Campaign 217 (Osprey 2010), 96pp.
• Timothy Dawson, Byzantine Cavalryman, c900-1204, Warrior 139 (Osprey, 2009), 64pp.
• Angus Konstam, Strongholds of the Picts: The Fortifications of Dark Age Scotland, Fortress 92 (Osprey 2010), 64pp.
• Zsolt Hunyadi, The Hospitallers in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary c.1150-1387 (Budapest, 2010), 354pp.