Abstract
This new history of warfare from the eighth through the fifteenth centuries provides an interesting synthesis of current and classic scholarship on the subject, but if the devil is in the details this book falls short in some areas. The text acknowledges military technology as a legitimate category within military history, one which demonstrates that military history has grown out of its former exclusive, staff-college attention to battles and royal politics. Still, there is a conscious segregation of the technologies from the histories proper here, and technology is not dealt with in any great depth in this sweeping survey. Heavily illustrated (though often poorly captioned), the book will appeal to lay readers, but the academic audience will find it lacking.
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