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

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