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Strategies of War in Westeros

by Ken Mondschein (k e n [at] k e n m o n d s c h e i n [dot] c o m) George R.R. Martin’s Westeros seems to have an unreasonably large number of battles compared to the real Middle Ages. In A Clash of Kings there are …

Eads — Means, Motive, Opportunity

Valerie Eads, “Means, Motive, Opportunity: Medieval Women and the Recourse to Arms,” paper presented at The Twentieth Barnard Medieval & Renaissance Conference, “War and Peace in the Middle Ages & Renaissance,” December 2, 2006: Eads-MeansMotivesOpp

Intro to JMMH vol. 1

Introduction to Volume 1 by Bernard S. Bachrach   Consistent with the tastes of the educated reading public throughout the West, students in American colleges and universities for a very long time have filled and, indeed, have overfilled, classes in military history. Courses dealing with war and its multifaceted influence, …