De Re Militari

Matthew P. McDiarmaid and James A.C. Stevenson (eds) Barbour’s Bruce: A! Fredome is a Noble Thing! Volumes I, II, & III (Boydell & Brewer, 2023), 264pp. $170.00 The text commonly known as The B...

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Michael S. Fulton Contest for Egypt. The Collapse of the Fatimid Caliphate, the Ebb of Crusader Influence, and the Rise of Saladin (Brill, 2022), 193pp. $142.00 Once the early crusaders had worn ...

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Brian Todd Carey, Joshua B. Allfree, John Cairns Warfare in the Age of the Crusades: The Latin East (Pen & Sword, 2022), 312pp. $34.95 Professor Brian Todd Carey, the retired U.S. Army Sergeant J...

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Brian Todd Carey, Joshua B. Allfree, John Cairns Road to Manzikert: Byzantine & Islamic Warfare, 527-1071 (Pen & Sword, 2021), 204pp. £14.99 As most Byzantine military historians know the Battle...

https://deremilitari.org/2024/01/brian-todd-carey-joshua-b-allfree-john-cairns-road-to-manzikert-byzantine-islamic-warfare-527-1071-reviewer-daniel-fratini/

James Titterton Deception in Medieval Warfare: Trickery and Cunning in the Central Middle Ages (The Boydell Press, 2022), 292pp. $125 War is a realm full of secrecy, uncertainty, misinformation, ...

https://deremilitari.org/2024/01/james-titterton-deception-in-medieval-warfare-trickery-and-cunning-in-the-central-middle-ages-reviewer-haggai-olshanetsky/

Alan V. Murray and Karen Watts (eds.) The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts and Pas d’Armes, 1100-1600 (Boydell and Brewer, 2023), 263pp. $38.95 (pb) The Medieval Tournament as...

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Anthony Kaldellis and Marion Kruse The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630 (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 228pp. $110 Anthony Kaldellis and Marion Kruse’s The Field Armies of th...

https://deremilitari.org/2023/10/anthony-kaldellis-and-marion-kruse-the-field-armies-of-the-east-roman-empire-361-630-reviewer-evan-schultheis/

Michael P. Warner The Agincourt Campaign of 1415: The Retinues of the Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester (Boydell & Brewer, 2021), 258pp. $115 The last number of years have witnessed a growing inte...

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Stephen Morillo War and Conflict in the Middle Ages: A Global Perspective (Polity, 2022), 257pp. €21.50 War and Conflict is a combination of history of philosophy, military history, political h...

https://deremilitari.org/2023/09/stephen-morillo-war-and-conflict-in-the-middle-ages-a-global-perspective-reviewer-stuart-gorman/

Many of these petitions reveal the personal tragedies that befell the residents of northern England and the efforts that were needed to keep up the defence of the region. Continue reading →

https://deremilitari.org/2023/08/petitions-dealing-with-warfare-from-fourteenth-century-berwick-cumbria-and-durham/