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Lambert — Shipping the Medieval Military

Craig Lambert Shipping the Medieval Military Boydell Press, 2011. 256 pp. $90.00 USD. ISBN 978-1843836544. A perusal of the Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, its updates, the International Medieval Bibliography and other military history bibliographies will demonstrate that despite the massive scholarship dealing with fourteenth-century warfare, logistical …

Allmand — The De Re Militari of Vegetius [H-Net review]

An H-Net review from H-Soz-u-Kult, in German, has just been posted: Christopher Allmand. The De Re Militari of Vegetius: The Reception, Transmission and Legacy of a Roman Text in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 450 S. ISBN 978-1-107-00027-8. — reviewed by The original review is in German, but you can …

Multi-volume review of books on medieval warfare

A multi-book essay review by Sean McGlynn has appeared in the European Review of History/Revue europeenne d’histoire 20.1 (2013): 153-159.  For those who have institutional access, you should be able to link to it here.  The books reviewed en masse are Medieval Warfare 1000–1300, ed. John France (Ashgate 2010) Medieval Warfare 1300–1450, ed. Kelly DeVries …

Milliken — Ambiguous Locks (Geldof)

Roberta Milliken Ambiguous Locks: An Iconology of Hair in Medieval Art and Literature Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2012. 300 pp. $65.00. ISBN 9780786448708 [Ed. note: this book was offered to DRM despite its non-military topic, but see the discussion of Joan of Arc in the closing paragraphs.] Gender studies, …

Tondro — Superheroes of the Round Table (Cueva)

Jason Tondro Superheroes of the Round Table: Comics Connections to Medieval and Renaissance Literature Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011. 248 pp. 68 ill. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-7864-6068-7. There is no doubt that Jason Tondro’s Superheroes of the Round Table: Comics Connections to Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a remarkable …

TMR 12.06.10 Bagge, et al., Feudalism (Brown)

Sverre Bagge, Michael H. Gelting, and Thomas Lindkvist (eds.) Feudalism: New Landscapes of Debate. The Medieval Countryside 5. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. Pp. 232. 80 Euros. ISBN: 978-2-503-53158- 8. Reviewed by Elizabeth A. R. Brown The City University of New York, Emerita (earbrown160@aol.com) Available at The Medieval Review TMR 12.06.10