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)

• 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.
• Christopher Gravett, The Castles of Edward I in Wales, 1277-1307, Fortress 64 (Osprey, 2007), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Craig Nakashian.
• Susan Rose (ed.), Medieval Ships and Warfare, International Library of Essays on Military History (Ashgate, 2008), 468pp. -- Reviewed by L.J. Andrew Villalon.
• Kelly DeVries, Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, revised edition - History of Warfare 26 (Brill, 2004), xii+330pp. -- Reviewed by Robert Howell.
• David Nicolle, The Second Crusade 1148. Disaster Outside Damascus, Campaign 204 (Osprey, 2009), 96pp. -- Reviewed by Lee Ruddin.
• 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 A. Walton.
• José Sanchez, Medieval Knights: the Age of Chivalry (Andrea Press/Casemate, 2008) -- Reviewed by Craig Nakashian.
• Nicola di Cosmo (ed.), Military Culture in Imperial China (Harvard University Press, 2009), 445pp. -- Reviewed by Kenneth Swope.

Recent DRM Reviews

• W. Sarnecki and D. Nicolle, Medieval Polish Armies 966-1500, Men-at-Arms 445 (Osprey, 2008), 48pp. -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani.
• Richard Brzezinski, Polish Winged Hussar 1576-1775, Warrior 94 (Osprey, 2006), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Sergio Mantovani.
• 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. -- Reviewed by Timothy May.
• Fred M. Donner (ed.), The Expansion of the Early Islamic State, The Formation of the Classical Islamic World 5 (Ashgate Variorum, 2008) 386pp. -- Reviewed by Lee Ruddin.
• Victor Mallia-Milanes (ed.), The Military Orders, Volume 3: History and Heritage (Ashgate, 2008), 328 pp. -- Reviewed by Jose Manuel Rodriguez Garcia.
• Susan Rose, Calais: An English Town in France, 1347-1558 (Boydell, 2008), 187pp. -- Reviewed by Ilana Krug.
• David Nicolle, Teutonic Knight: 1190-1561, Warrior 124 (Osprey, 2007), 64pp. -- Reviewed by Daniel Frank.
• Clifford J. Rogers, Soldiers' Lives through History (Greenwood Press, 2007), xxxii+298pp. -- Reviewed by Daniel Frank.
  

Upcoming DRM Reviews [unreviewed]

• 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.
• Brenda J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder, Explosives, and the State: A Technological History (Ashgate, 2006), xxiii+425pp. -- to be reviewed by Brian R.Price
• David Nicolle, Knights of Jerusalem: The Crusading Order of Hospitallers 1100-1565 (Osprey, 2008) 223pp. -- to be reviewed by Zsolt Hunyadi.
• David Grummitt, Calais Garrison: War and Military Service in England, 1436-1558 (Boydell & Brewer, 2008), 240pp. -- to be reviewed by Mark Charles Fissel.
• 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. - to be reviewed by Jose Manuel Rodriguez Garcia.
• 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.
• Gareth C. Sampson, The Defeat of Rome in the East: Crassus, the Parthians, an the Disastrous Battle of Carrhae, 53BC (Casemate 2008), 234pp. -- to be reviewed by Lee Ruddin.
• 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 Amy West.
• Stephen Turnbull, Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (2), Fortress 19 (Osprey, 2004), 64pp. -- to be reviewed by
• Timothy Dawson, Byzantine Infantryman: Eastern Roman Empire c.900-1204, Warrior 118 (Osprey, 2007), 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
• Ana Echevarría, Knights on the Frontier: The Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467), MEMIW 36 (Brill, 2009), 358pp. -- 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.
• 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. -- to be reviewed by Brian Ditcham.
• Judi Upton-Ward (ed.), The Military Orders Volume 4: On Land and by Sea (Ashgate, 2008), 310pp. -- to be reviewed by Jarbel Rodriguez.
• Mary Beard, The Roman Triumph(Harvard UP, 2007), 434pp pbk. -- to be reviewed by Edward P. Cueva.

DRM Books Available for Review

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

• 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.
• Eric McGeer, Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century (Dumbarton Oaks, 1995, 2008), xx+405pp.
• Simon Phillips, The Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in Late Medieval England (Boydell, 2009), xiv+210pp.

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Information for Publishers

If you have books that you would like reviewed by De Re Militari, please contact the book review editor at:

Steven Walton, DRM book review editor
Program in Science, Technology, & Society
Penn State University
202 Old Botany
University Park, PA 16802.

<saw23@psu.edu> phone: 814.863.8526 fax: 814.865.3047

We welcome books on all aspects of military history and science from late Roman to Early Modern (c.400-1648).

Unsolicited review copies are most welcome, but we cannot guarantee that all we receive will generate a review, although we certainly do try to review all books that come in. If you would like to send a list of books available for review, we will endeavor to find a reviewer and then contact you to send the book directly. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact the book review editor at <saw23@psu.edu>.