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 issues of 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 the effectiveness 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 Iberian war-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
Details
First Published: 21 Sep 2006
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843832676
Pages: 180
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: Boydell Press
Series:
Journal of Medieval Military HistorySubject:
Medieval HistoryBIC Class: HBLC1
Details updated on 04 Feb 2012
Contents
- 1 The Sword of Justice: War and State Formation in Comparative Perspective
- 2 Archery versus Mail: Experimental Archaeology and the Value of Historical Context
- 3 "Cowardice" and Duty in Anglo-Saxon England
- 4 Cowardice and Fear Management: The 1173-74 Conflict as a Case Study
- 5 Expecting Cowardice: Medieval Battle Tactics Reconsidered
- 6 Naval Tactics at the Battle of Zierikzee [1304] in the Light of Mediterranean Praxis
- 7 The Military Role of the Magistrates in Holland during the Guelders War
- 8 Women in Medieval Armies
- 9 Verbruggen's "Cavalry" and the Lyon-Thesis
- 10 Dogs of War in Thirteenth-Century Valencian Garrisons
