Latest volume in the leading forum for debate on aspects of medieval warfare.
The essays in this latest edition of the
Journal, by leading experts in the field, are a witness to the flourishing state of the subject, and provide significant contributions to various important on-going debates and controversies. They include wide-ranging discussions of state formation and the role of women in medieval warfare, and an energetic argument against viewing medieval warfare as cavalry-dominated. A trio of articles dealing with issuesof bravery and cowardice, though based on Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman evidence, advance our knowledge of one of the all-pervasive aspects of the military history of the middle ages. Similarly, an experimentally-based study of theeffectiveness of arrows against mail armor reaches conclusions that will cast light on combat from Visigothic Spain to Crusader Outremer to fifteenth-century Bohemia. In addition, the Journal includes in-depth studies of Iberianwar-dogs, the naval battle of Zierikzee at the start of the fourteenth century, and [reflecting the editors’ broad understanding of the scope of the field] the war-related activities of Dutch magistrates at the turn of the sixteenth century.
Contributors: STEPHEN MORILLO, BERNARD S. BACHRACH, RUSS MITCHELL, RICHARD ABELS, STEVEN ISAAC, WILLIAM SAYERS, JAMES P. WARD, J. F. VERBRUGGEN, ROBERT BURNS
Tabella dei contenuti
The Sword of Justice: War and State Formation in Comparative Perspective – Stephen R Morillo
Archery
versus Mail: Experimental Archaeology and the Value of Historical Context – Russ Mitchell
‘Cowardice’ and Duty in Anglo-Saxon England – Richard Abels
Cowardice and Fear Management: The 1173-74 Conflict as a Case Study – Steven Isaac
Expecting Cowardice: Medieval Battle Tactics Reconsidered – Stephen R Morillo
Naval Tactics at the Battle of Zierikzee [1304] in the Light of Mediterranean Praxis – William Sayers
The Military Role of the Magistrates in Holland during the Guelders War – James P. Ward
Women in Medieval Armies – J F Verbruggen
Verbruggen’s ‘Cavalry’ and the Lyon-Thesis – Bernard S Bachrach
Dogs of War in Thirteenth-Century Valencian Garrisons – Robert I. Burns
Circa l’autore
STEVEN ISAAC is the Simpson Professor of Medieval History, Longwood University.
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