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Book SynopsisLatest 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 issuesof 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 theeffectiveness 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 Iberianwar-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. Contributors: STEPHEN MORILLO, BERNARD S. BACHRACH, RUSS MITCHELL, RICHARD ABELS, STEVEN ISAAC, WILLIAM SAYERS, JAMES P. WARD, J. F. VERBRUGGEN, ROBERT BURNS
Table of ContentsThe Sword of Justice: War and State Formation in Comparative Perspective - Stephen R Morillo Archery versus Mail: Experimental Archaeology and the Value of Historical Context - Russ Mitchell "Cowardice" and Duty in Anglo-Saxon England - Richard Abels Cowardice and Fear Management: The 1173-74 Conflict as a Case Study - Steven Isaac Expecting Cowardice: Medieval Battle Tactics Reconsidered - Stephen R Morillo Naval Tactics at the Battle of Zierikzee [1304] in the Light of Mediterranean Praxis - William Sayers The Military Role of the Magistrates in Holland during the Guelders War - James P. Ward Women in Medieval Armies - J F Verbruggen Verbruggen's "Cavalry" and the Lyon-Thesis - Bernard S Bachrach Dogs of War in Thirteenth-Century Valencian Garrisons - Robert I. Burns
