The French Chronicle of London, detailing events from 1259 to 1343, provides one of the best accounts of the naval battle of Sluys, and the siege of Tournai by Edward III in 1340. 12 Edward III. [A.D. 1337, 8]. Henry Darcy, Mayor. Walter Nele and Nicholas Crane, Sheriffs. In the …
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 …
This poem, written in French, is thought to be authored by Walter of Exeter, a Franciscan friar. The story details the siege of the Scottish castle of Carlaverock in July 1300 by Edward I. The first portion of the poem gives a long list of heraldic banners and shields carried …
One of the most important figures in the history of fourteenth century Byzantium was John Cantacuzenus, a military commander under Andronicus III, who then rebelled against the regency government of Anna of Savoy, and himself emperor from 1347 to 1354. Furthermore, John also wrote a history of this period, including …
John H. Pryor and Elizabeth M. Jeffreys The Age of the Dromon. The Byzantine Navy ca. 500-1204 Leiden: Brill, 2011. 754 pp. $49.50 [PB]. The Medieval Mediterranean 62 ISBN 978 90 04 15197 0 [HB]; ISBN 978 90 04 20590 1 [PB] When this hefty tome appeared in 2006, in …
Graham Cushway, Edward III and the War at Sea: The English Navy, 1327-1377. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer, 2011. Pp. xii, 265. $99.00. ISBN-13: 9781843836216. Reviewed by Stephen Morillo, Wabash College (morillos@wabash.edu) Available at The Medieval Review TMR 12.10.21