John France & Kelly DeVries 
Journal of Medieval Military History 
Volume XVI

The Journal of Medieval Military History continues to consolidate its now assured position as the leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare. Medieval Warfare


The articles here offer a wide range of approaches to medieval warfare. They include traditional studies of strategy (on Baybars) and the logistics of Edward II’s wars, as well as cultural history (an examination of chivalry in
Guy of Warwick) intellectual history (a broad analysis of strategic theory in the Middle Ages), and social history (on knightly training in arms). The Hundred Years War is studied using cutting-edge methodology (data-drivenanalysis of skirmishes) and by tackling relatively new areas of inquiry (environmental history). There is also a close reading of Carolingian documents, which sheds new light on armies and warfare in the time of Charles the Great.


Contributors: Ronald W. Braasch III, Pierre Galle, Walter Goffart, Carl I. Hammer, John Hosler, Rabei G. Khamisy, Ilana Krug, Danny Lake-Giguère, Brian Price.

Table of Content

In the Field with Charlemagne, 791 – Carl Hammer

The Recruitment of Freemen into the Carolingian Army, or How Far May One Argue from Silence? – Walter Goffart

Baybars’ Strategy of War against the Franks – Rabei G. Khamisy

Food, Famine and Edward II’s Military Failures – Ilana Krug

The Impacts of Warfare on Woodland Exploitation in Late Medieval Normandy (1364-1380): Royal Forests as Military Assets during the Hundred Years’ War – Danny Lake-Giguère

Exercises in Arms: the Physical and Mental Combat Training of Men-at-Arms in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries – Pierre Gaite

The Skirmish: A Statistical Analysis of Minor Combats during the Hundred Years’ War: 1337-1453 – Ronald W. Braasch

Yron & Stele: Chivalric Ethos, Martial Pedagogy, Equipment, and Combat Technique in the Early Fourteenth Century Middle English Version of
Guy of Warwick – Brian R. Price

Reframing the Conversation on Medieval Military Strategy – John D. Hosler

About the author

JOHN D. HOSLER is associate professor of military history at the US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth.