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Miscellaneous book reviews

Book reviews are mainly of interest to professional scholars.  If, however, you are interested in what I think on some subjects that are important to me, you may find the following useful.

Chivalry and deeds of arms
2014 – Review of Martin van Creveld, Wargames: From Gladiators to Gigabytes. In American Historical Review. 119: 1227-8.

2009 -- Review of Richard Kaeuper, Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry. In The Medieval Review, <https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/6664/09.12.16.html?sequence=1>

2006 – Review of Anne Curry, 
Agincourt:  A New History.  In Journal of the Society of Army Historical Research 84 n. 338: 197-8

2005 – “Diverse Views of the Medieval Warrior,” review of Adrian R. Bell, War and the Soldier in the Fourteenth Century, and Rachel Ann Dressler, Of Armor and Men in Medieval England: The chivalric rhetoric of three English knights' effigies.  In H-Albion reviews (H-Net);
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=99031161705114.

 2004 -- Review of Alessandro Marcigliano, Chivalric Festivals at the Ferrarese Court of Alfonso II d’Este. In: Sehepunkt 4 n. 5,
http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2004/05/5185.html.
 
2003 -- Review of Duccio Balestracci, La Festa in Armi:  Giostre, tornei, e giochi de Medioevo.  In The Medieval Review
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/15552/21670​
 
2001 -- Review of Mary Arlene Santina, The Tournament and Literature:  Literary representations of the medieval tournament in Old French works, 1150-1226. In The Medieval Review, http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/ under Muhlberger.
 
2000 -- Review of Richard W. Kaeuper, Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe.  In International History Review, 22: 884-6.
 

The Middle Ages
2016 – Review of Paul M. Cobb, The Race for Paradise: An Islamic history of the Crusades. In The Medieval Review. 
http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/20760/26783

2012 – Review of Adrian R. Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman, Andy King, and David Simpkin, eds., The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century. In The Medieval Review, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/14364/12.04.07.html?sequence=1

2012 Review of David Nicolle, The Great Chevauchée:  John of Gaunt’s raid on France 1373. http://deremilitari.org/2012/06/nicolle-the-great-chevauchee-muhlberger/
 
2009 – Review of Mark Pegg, A Most Holy War. In Michigan War Studies Review, <http://www.michiganw
arstudiesreview.com/2009/20091002.asp>

 
2004 – Review of Catherine Hanley, War and Combat 1150-1270: The evidence from Old French literature.  In De Re Militari
http://www.deremilitari.org/REVIEWS/Hanley_WarCombat.htm

Late Antiquity 
2003 -- Review of Marilyn Dunn, The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages.  In Canadian Journal of History, 38: 86-7.

 
2001 -- Review of Peter S. Wells, The Barbarians Speak: How the conquered peoples shaped Roman Europe. In American Historical Review, 106: 1430-1.

1997 -- Review of Guy Halsall, ​Settlement and Social Organization:  The Merovingian region of Metz. In Speculum 72: 831-832.

 
1996 -- Review of H.W. Byrd, tr., Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus. In Bryn Mawr Medieval Review [The Medieval Review], 
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/14437/20555

1993 -- Review of Peter Heather, Goths and Romans: 334-489. In International History Review, 15: 336-337.


Democracy
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2010 – Review of Charles Kurzman, Democracy Denied, 1905–1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of  Democracy. In Journal of World History 21(2010): 537-9.

1994 -- Review of John Dunn, ed., Democracy: The unfinished journey. In Journal of World History, 5: 378-380.

1992 -- Review of Donald W. Treadgold, Freedom. A History. In Journal of World History, 3: 267-271.

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