Latest volume in the leading forum for debate on aspects of medieval warfare. 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.
Author(s): Clifford J. Rogers, Kelly DeVries, John France (eds.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 180
City: Woodbridge
ARTICLES
1. The Sword of Justice: War and State Formation in Comparative Perspective / Stephen Morillo 1
2. Archery versus Mail: Experimental Archaeology and the Value of Historical Context / Russ Mitchell 18
3. “Cowardice” and Duty in Anglo-Saxon England / Richard Abels 29
4. Cowardice and Fear Management: The 1173–74 Conf lict as a Case Study / Steven Isaac 50
5. Expecting Cowardice: Medieval Battle Tactics Reconsidered / Stephen Morillo 65
6. Naval Tactics at the Battle of Zierikzee (1304) in the Light of Mediterranean Praxis / William Sayers 74
7. The Military Role of the Magistrates in Holland during the Guelders War / James P. Ward 91
8. Women in Medieval Armies / J. F. Verbruggen 119
DEBATE
Verbruggen’s “Cavalry” and the Lyon-Thesis / Bernard S. Bachrach 137
DOCUMENT
Dogs of War in Thirteenth-Century Valencian Garrisons / Robert I. Burns / 164
