De Re Militari is pleased to present reviews and notices of recent work on medieval military history, whether new books, journal articles, or scholarly appearances in media.
For any questions or more information on becoming a book reviewer for De Re Militari, please contact:
Craig M Nakashian
Book Review Editor, De Re Militari
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Texarkana, Texas 75503
craig.nakashian@tamut.edu
903-223-3136
(Note- We would like to thank Dr. Del Doughty, Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education at Texas A&M University-Texarkana for his continued support of the DRM book review process.)
Recent Reviews:
- Craig Taylor, A Virtuous Knight: Defending Marshal Boucicaut (Jean II Le Meingre, 1366-1421) (Brian Ditcham) August 14, 2019
- Georgios Chatzelis, Byzantine Military Manuals as Literary Works and Practical Handbooks: The Case of the Tenth-Century (Lucas McMahon) June 13, 2019
- Ken Mondschein, Game of Thrones and the Medieval Art of War (Jacob Deacon) June 4, 2019
- Mollie M. Madden, The Black Prince and the Grande Chevauchée of 1355 (Matt Raven) May 28, 2019
- To Win and Lose a Medieval Battle: Najera (April 3, 1367), a Pyrrhic Victory for the Black Prince. (eds.) L. J. Andrew Villalon and Donald J. Kagay (John France) May 16, 2019
- Richard J. Blakemore & Elaine Murphy, The British Civil Wars at Sea 1638 – 1653 (Jasmin Ditcham) March 18, 2019
- Susan B. Edgington, Baldwin I of Jerusalem, 1100-1118 (Review by Francesca Petrizzo) March 12, 2019
- Philip J. Caudrey, Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War (Brian Ditcham) March 6, 2019
- Ϸhorsteinn Helgason, The Corsairs’ Longest Voyage: The Turkish Raid in Iceland 1627, translated by Anna Yates and Jóna Ann Pétursdóttir (Simon Egan) February 15, 2019
- Nicholas Savy, Bertrucat d’Albret, ou le destin d’un captaine gascon du roi d’Angleterre pendant la guerre de Cent Ans (Brian Ditcham) February 12, 2019
- Anthony Musson and Nigel Ramsay (eds), Courts of Chivalry and Admiralty in Late Medieval Europe (Brian Ditcham) January 7, 2019
- Joanna Bellis and Laura Slater (eds.), Representing War and Violence, 1250-1600 (Million) January 4, 2019
- Michael Lower, The Tunis Crusade of 1270: A Mediterranean History (Phillips) November 30, 2018
- Michael S Fulton, Artillery in the age of the Crusades: Siege warfare and the development of trebuchet technology (Purton) November 12, 2018
- Savy, La Ville Fortifiée de la Guerre de Cent Ans (v. 1345-v. 1395): Armement et Tactique. (Ditcham) October 31, 2018
- Georgios Theotokis and Aysel Yıldız (eds.) A Military History of the Mediterranean Sea: Aspects of War, Diplomacy, and Military Elites (Fissel) September 22, 2018
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DRM Books Available for Review
Links here are to the publisher’s website for the book, if available.
- Pietro Monte’s Collectanea: The Arms, Armour and Fighting Techniques of a Fifteenth-Century Soldier, tr. Jeffrey L. Forgeng (Boydell & Brewer, 2018), 333 pp.
- Marc Hyden, Gaius Marius: Rise and Fall of Rome’s Savior (Pen & Sword Books, 2017), 331 pp.
- Elizabeth Lapina and Nicholas Morton (eds.), The Uses of the Bible in Crusader Sources (Brill, 2017), 480 pp. (Available to the reviewer as PDF or Kindle edition)
- Kirill Rivkin and Brian Isaac, A Study of the Eastern Sword (Yamna Publishing, 2017), 360 pp.
- Peter Purton, The Medieval Military Engineer: From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century (Boydell & Brewer, 2018), 365 pp.
- Nicholas Savy, Bertrucat d’Albret: ou le destin d’un capitaine gascon du roi d’Angleterre pendant le guerre de Cent Ans (Archeodrom, 2017), 478 pp. [French]
- Timothy May, The Mongol Art of War (Pen & Sword, 2007; republished 2016), 214 pp.
- Lindsey Powell, Germanicus (Pen & Sword, 2016), 374 pp.
- 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.)
- Technology, Violence, and War: Essays in Honor of Dr. John F. Guilmartin, Jr., eds. Robert S. Ehlers, Jr., Sarah K. Douglas, and Daniel P.M. Curzon (Brill, 2019), 402 pp.
- The Contemporary English Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses, eds. Dan Embree and M. Teresa Tavormina (Boydell, 2019), 406 pp.
- Georgios Theotokis, Twenty Battles that Shaped Medieval Europe (The Crowood Press, 2019), 242 pp.
- The World of the Siege, eds. Anke Fischer-Kattner and Jamel Ostwald (Brill, 2019), 316 pp.
- Mike Ingram, Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth (Casemate, 2019), 304 pp.
- John Carr, The Pope’s Army: The Papacy in Diplomacy and War (Pen & Sword, 2019), 306 pp.
- Peter Hoskins, Siege Warfare During the Hundred Years War: Once More Unto the Breach (Pen & Sword, 2018), 234 pp.
- Garbriele Esposito, Armies of the Hellenistic States 323 BC- AD 30 (Pen & Sword, 2019), 155 pp.
- Bob Bennett & Mike Roberts, The Wars of Alexander’s Successors 323-281 BC, Vol. I: Commanders & Campaigns (Pen & Sword, 2019), 236 pp.
- Kathryn Warner, Hugh Despenser the Younger & Edward II: Downfall of a King’s Favourite (Pen & Sword, 2019), 232 pp.
- Arthur C. Wright, Decoding the Bayeux Tapestry (Frontline Books, 2019), 175 pp.
- Sue Brunning, The Sword in Early Medieval Northern Europe: Experience, Identity, Representation (The Boydell Press, 2019), 213 pp.
- Charles D. Stanton, Roger of Lauria (c. 1250-1305) ‘Admiral of Admirals’ (The Boydell Press, 2019), 346 pp.
