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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. Contributors: STEPHEN MORILLO, BERNARD S. BACHRACH, RUSS MITCHELL, RICHARD ABELS, STEVEN ISAAC, WILLIAM SAYERS, JAMES P. WARD, J. F. VERBRUGGEN, ROBERT BURNS.

Military art and science --- Military history, Medieval. --- Medieval military history --- Medieval warfare --- History --- Military history, Medieval --- Civilization, Medieval --- Politics and war --- War and society --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- War and politics --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Anglo-Norman evidence. --- Anglo-Saxon. --- Crusader Outremer. --- Dutch magistrates. --- Iberian war-dogs. --- Visigothic Spain. --- arrows. --- bravery. --- cavalry-dominated. --- combat. --- cowardice. --- fifteenth-century Bohemia. --- mail armor. --- medieval warfare. --- naval battle of Zierikzee. --- sixteenth century. --- state formation. --- women in medieval warfare.