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- David
Potter, Henry VIII and Francis I:
the final conflict, 1540-47, History
of Warfare 66 (Brill 2011), 584pp. -- Reviewed
by Brian Ditcham.
- David
R. Lawrence, The
Complete Soldier. Military Books and Military Culture
in Early Stuart England, 1603-1645, History of Warfare,
53 (Brill, 2009), 439 pp. -- Reviewed by Mark Charles Fissel.
- Paul
Wagner & Stephen Hand, Medieval
Sword And Shield: The Combat System of Royal Armouries
MS I.33 (Chivalry
Bookshelf, 2009), 278pp. -- Reviewed by Mark Geldof.
- Peter
Hoskins, In
the Steps of the Black Prince: The Road to Poitiers,
1355-1356 (Boydell,
2011) 274 pp. -- Reviewed by Mollie Madden.
- Yuval
Noah Harari, The
Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and
the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000 (Palgrave,
2009), 408pp. -- Reviewed by Mark Geldof.
- Carolyn
Springer,
Armour
and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance (University
of Toronto Press, 2010), 272pp. -- Reviewed by Ken
Mondschein.
- Yuval
Noah Harari,
Special
Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550 (Boydell
& Brewer, 2007), 248pp. -- Reviewed by Matthieu
Chan Tsin.
- David Santiuste,
Edward
IV and the Wars of the Roses (Pen & Sword, 2010),
208pp. -- Reviewed by Compton Reeves.
- Michael
Pitassi, Roman
Warships (Boydell, 2011) 191pp. -- Reviewed by Edmund
P. Cueva.
- Joseph
F. O'Callaghan,
The
Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait (Univ.
Pennsylvania Press, 2010), 392pp. -- Reviewed by Dana Cushing.
- David
Nicolle, Saladin:
Leadership, Strategy, Conflict, Command 12 (Osprey, 2011),
64pp. -- Reviewed by L.J. Andy Villalon.
- Adrian
Goldsworthy, Roman Warfare (Cassel, 2000), 224pp.-- Reviewed
by Christopher Berg.
- Erik
Hildinger, Warriors of
the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia 500 B.C. to 1700
A.D. (Da Capo, 2001), x+260pp.
-- Reviewed by Christopher Berg.
Recent Medieval Military Reviews at DRM and Elsewhere
- Joseph F. O'Callaghan, The Gibraltar Crusade:
Castile and the Battle for the Strait (University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2011), 376pp. [TMR 11.10.31] -- Reviewed by Donald
J. Kagay.
- Katherine Allen Smith, War and the Making
of Medieval Monastic Culture (Boydell, 2011), 236pp. [TMR
11.10.32] -- Reviewed by Matthew Gabriele.
- Damian
J. Smith, Crusade, Heresy and Inquisition in the Lands of
the Crown of Aragon (c.1167-1276) (Brill, 2010) 249pp. [TMR
11.11.03] -- Reviewed by María D. Bollo-Panadero.
- Diane, M. Williams and John R. Kenyon (eds.),
The Impact of the Edwardian Castle in Wales (Oxbow Books,
2010), 211pp. [TMR 11.11.06] -- Reviewed by Paul Courtney.
- George T. Dennis, The Taktika of
Leo VI: Text, Translation, and Commentary (Dumbarton Oaks,
2010), 690pp. [TMR 11.11.13]
-- Reviewed by Everett L. Wheeler.
- Benham, Peacemaking in the Middle Ages (Friedman)
Jenny Benham, Peacemaking in the Middle Ages: Principles
and Practice (Manchester University Press, 2011), 250pp. [TMR
11.11.25] -- Reviewed by Yvonne Friedman.
- Matthew Gabriele, An Empire of Memory: The
Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the
First Crusade (Oxford University Press, 2011) 202pp. [TMR
11.12.14] -- Reviewed by Thomas F. X. Noble.
- Mary Fischer (trans.), The
Chronicle of Prussia by Nicholaus of Jeroschin. A History
of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, 1190-1331, Crusade
Texts in Translation (Ashgate, 2010), viii+299pp. -- Reviewed
by John Eldevik.
- Jill N. Claster, Sacred
Violence: The European Crusades to the Middle East, 1096-1396 (U.
of Toronto Press, 2009) and Helen J. Nicholson, The
Crusades (Hackett,
2009) - Reviewed by Brian G.H. Ditcham for H-German
- Arther
Ferrill, The Fall of the
Roman Empire: The Military Explanation (Thames and Hudson,
1986), 192pp. -- Reviewed by Christopher Berg.
- J.
E. Lendon, Soldiers and
Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (Yale
UP), xii+468pp. -- Reviewed by Christopher Berg.
- Edward
Luttwak, The Grand
Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Harvard UP, 2009), 512pp.
-- Reviewed by Christopher Berg.
- David
Potter, Renaissance France
at War: Armies, Culture & Society, c.1480-1560 (Boydell & Brewer,
2008), 454pp. -- Reviewed by Brian Ditcham.
- Timothy
Dawson, Byzantine Infantryman:
Eastern Roman Empire c. 900-1204, Warrior 118 (Osprey, 2007),
64pp. and Byzantine
Cavalryman c. 900-1204, Warrior 139 (Opsprey, 2009), 64pp.
-- Reviewed by Christopher Berg.
- Mark
Bartusis, The Late
Byzantine Army: Arms and Society, 1204-1453 (U. Penn Press,
1992) -- Reviewed by Christopher Berg.
Upcoming DRM Reviews [unreviewed]
- George T. Dennis (ed. and trans.), The
Taktika of Leo VI , Dumbarton Oaks
Texts 12 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2010), 656 pp. -- to be reviewed by
Cliff Rogers.
- Ryan Lavelle, Alfred's
Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon
Warfare in the Viking Age (Boydell, 2010),
378pp. -- to be reviewed by Daniel Rodrigues.
- Noel Fallows, Jousting
in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia (Boydell & Brewer,
2011), 574pp. -- to be reviewed by Steven Muhlberger.
- David Loades, The
Making of the Elzabethan Navy 1540-1590: From
the Solent to the Armada (Boydell Press,
2009), 244pp. -- to be reviewed by Mark R Condeno.
- Charles D. Stanton, Norman
Naval Operations in the Mediterranean (Boydell & Brewer,
2011), 338pp. -- to be reviewed by José Manuel
Rodríguez García.
- E. Hamilton Currey, Sea-Wolves
of the Mediterranean: Moslem Corsairs of the Sixteenth
Century 1492-1580, NM38 Naval & Maritime Series
(Leonaur, 2011), 280pp. -- to be reviewed by Lee
Ruddin.
- Marcus Cowper , Henry
V , Command 8 (Osprey 2010), 64pp. -- to
be reviewed by Stelios Perdios.
- Stephen Turnbull, Samurai
Women 1184-1877 , Warrior 151 (Osprey 2010),
64pp. -- to be reviewed by Val Eads
- Gianluca Raccagni, The
Lombard League 1167-1225 (The British Academy/Oxford,
2010), 231pp. -- to be reviewed by Daniel Franke.
- J. Cowgill, et al., Knives
and Scabbards, Medieval Finds from Excavations
in London, 1 (Museum of London/Boydell Press,
1987/2000), 169pp. -- to be reviewed by Annie
C. Humphrey.
- Stephane William Gondoin, Twilight
Of Medieval Castles (Histoire and Collections,
2009), 132pp. -- to be reviewed by David McDaniel.
- Peter Hoskins, In
the Steps of the Black Prince: The Road to Poitiers,
1355-1356 (Boydell, 2011) 274 pp. -- to
be reviewed by Ken Maddison.
- Mike Loades, Swords
and Swordsmen (Pen
& Sword, 2010), 486pp. -- to be reviewed by
Annamarie Kovacs.
- Peter Hammond, Richard
III and the Bosworth Campaign (Pen & Sword,
2010), 166pp. -- to be reviewed by Compton Reeves.
- Gregory Fremont-Barnes, The
Jacobite Rebellion 1745-46, Essential Histories
72 (Osprey, 2011), 96pp. -- to be reviewed by
Richard A. Williams.
- David Nicolle, Cross
& Crescent in the Balkans: The Ottoman Conquest
of Southeastern Europe (Pen
& Sword, 2010), 256pp. -- to be reviewed by
Russ Goodrich.
- Chris McNab, A
History of the World in 100 Weapons (Osprey
2011), 384pp. -- to be reviewed by Richard A.
Williams.
- Craig L. Lambert, Shipping
the Medieval Military: English Maritime Logistics
in the Fourteenth Century (Boydell & Brewer,
2011), 256pp. -- to be reviewed by Ilana Krug.
- Olaf van Nimwegen,
The
Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688 (Brill, 2010), 602pp. -- to be reviewed by Jay
Roberts.
- Graham Cushway, Edward
III and the War at Sea: The English Navy, 1327-1377 (Boydell & Brewer,
2011), 264pp. -- to be reviewed by L.J. Andy
Villalon.
- Adrian Boas, Archaeology
of the Military Orders: A Survey of the Urban Centres, Rural
Settlements and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin
East (c.1120–1291) (Routledge, 2011), 336pp. --
to be reviewed by Kim Kilmartin.
- Savvas Kyriakidis, Warfare
in Late Byzantium, 1204-1453, History of Warfare 67
(Brill 2011), 272pp. -- to be reviewed by Timothy May.
- Journal
of Medieval Military History,
vol. 9: Soldiers, Weapons & Armies in the Fifteenth
Century (Boydell, 2011), 199pp. -- to be reviewed by
Ken Mondeschein.
- Christopher Gravett, Tudor
Knight, Warrior 104 (Osprey, 2006), 64pp. --
to be reviewed by Sergio Mantovani.
- Keith Durham, Border
Reiver 1513-1603, Warrior 154 (Osprey, 2011), 64pp. --
to be reviewed by Sergio Mantovani.
- Adrian R. Bell and Anne Curry (eds.), The
Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century (Boydell, 2011),
244pp. -- to be reviewed by Brian Ditcham.
- Jason
Tondro, Superheroes
of the Round Table: Comics Connections to Medieval and
Renaissance Literature (McFarland, 2011), 248pp. -- to
be reviewed by Edmund Cueva.
- John H. Pryor and Elizabeth M. Jeffreys (eds.),
The
Age of the DROMON: The Byzantine Navy ca 500-1204 (Brill,
2006; PB 2011), 832pp. -- to be reviewed by Mark
Charles Fissell.
- Paul B. Newman, Travel
and Trade in the Middle Ages (McFarland, 2011), 249pp.
-- to be reviewed by Muhammed Hassanali.
- Ken Mondschein, The
Knightly Art of Battle (Getty Publications, 2011), 128pp.
-- to be reviewed by James Hester.
- Robert Jones, Knight:
The Warrior and World of Chivalry (Osprey, 2011), 240pp.
-- to be reviewed by Mark Gledof.
DRM Books Available for Review
Links here are to the publisher's website for the book, if available.
*book not yet arrived from the publisher.
- John Sadler, Towton:
The Battle of Palm Sunday Field, 1461 (Pen & Sword,
2011) 186pp.
- Stuart
Reid, Battles
Of The Scottish Lowlands: Battlefield Scotland (Pen & Sword,
2004), 160pp.
- David Nicolle, The
Great Chevauchée: John of Gaunt's Raid on France 1373, Raid 20 (Osprey
2011), 80pp.
- William Urban, The
Teutonic Knights: a Military History (Frontline Books, 2011), 290pp.
- David Nicolle, The Fourth Crusade
1202-04: The Betrayal of Byzantium, Campaign 237 (Osprey 2011),
96pp.
- David Santiuste,
Edward
IV and the Wars of the Roses, PB ed. (Pen & Sword, 2011),
208pp.
- Donald Featherstone, Bowmen
of England (Pen & Sword
Military Classics, 2003), PB 164pp.
- Lee Crane, Jewish
German Revolution: Saving Civilization in 400 (Pavillion
Press, 2010), 171pp.
- Susan Curran, The
English Friend, illustrated
by Susan Curran and Mike Dixon (Lasse Press, 2007), 304pp.
-- Available to the reviewer as PDF or Kindle edition.
- Tim Saunders and Andrew Duff, The
Dark Ages: The Viking Invasion of Wessex 878AD (Pen & Sword,
2012), DVD 80min. [note: this video is in PAL format
so you need a UK-compatible DVD player or computer].
- Tim Saunders and Andrew Duff, The
Dark Ages: The The 1066 Hastings Campaign (Pen & Sword,
2012), DVD 80min. [note: this video is in PAL format
so you need a UK-compatible DVD player or computer].
- Jean-Denis
G.G. Lepage, British
Fortifications Through the Reign of Richard III. An Illustrated
History (MacFarland, 2012), 318pp.
- Roberta Milliken, Ambiguous
Locks: an Iconology of Hiar in Medieval Art and Literature (McFarland, 2012),
290pp.
- Cristina Tonghini, Shayzar
I: The Fortification of the Citadel, History of Warfare
71 (Brill, 2012), 740pp.
- Philip Matyszak, Imperial
General: The Remarkable Career of Petellius Cerialis (Pen & Sword, 2011), 208pp.
- Scott M. Rusch, Sparta
at War: Strategy, Tactics, and Cmapaigns 550-362BC (Frontline Books, 2011),
260pp.
- Divid Nicolle, The
Fall of English France 1449-53, Campaign 241 (Osprey, 2012), 96pp.
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