More Info: 2014

Monograph

Military History

More Info: 2013

Publisher: Brill Academic Press

Publication Date: 2013

Military History, War Studies, and Medieval England

Publisher: Leiden: Brill

Publication Date: 2007

Niccolò Machiavelli occupies an important place in the canon of military authors. He is often considered the first original Western writer on war since the fall of Rome because his book, Arte della guerra (“Art of War... more abstractNiccolò Machiavelli occupies an important place in the canon of military authors. He is often considered the first original Western writer on war since the fall of Rome because his book, Arte della guerra (“Art of War”), synthesizes contemporary military customs with those of antiquity. However, in this essay I challenge the originality of three of that book’s core elements: its use of military exempla, its emphasis on educated generals, and the reciprocal military-state relationship it describes. I argue that it was actually John of Salisbury, the notable twelfth-century English writer, who first formulated these principles in his book Policraticus. This essay explores the dimensions of John’s antecedents and also the intellectual connections between the two books, including the influence of Policraticus in Renaissance Italy and, possibly, upon Machiavelli himself. It concludes by advocating for John of Salisbury’s own place in the canon of original military authors.

Military History, Strategy (Military Science), Medieval History, Machiavelli, Niccolò Machiavelli, and 3 more

Crusades, Crusades and the Latin East, Anglo-Norman history, and King Stephen of England

More Info: Pp. 11-32

Publisher: Brill

Publication Date: 2014

Publication Name: Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Essays on Medieval Europe in Honor of Daniel F. Callahan. Edited by Michael Frassetto, Matthew Gabriele, and John D. Hosler

More Info: Vol. 12:5, Pp. 398-411

Publication Date: 2014

Publication Name: History Compass

Publication Date: 2013

Publication Name: ACTA 2012, Technology and Warfare: 38th International Congress of Military History Proceedings. Edited by D. Minchev, J. Baev, and K. Gozev

More Info: Pp. 33-42

Publisher: Brill

Publication Date: 2008

Publication Name: Mercenaries and Paid Men: the Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages. Edited by John France

More Info: Pp. 167-82

Publisher: Routledge

Publication Date: 2007

Publication Name: Christian Attitudes towards the Jews in the Middle Ages: a Casebook. Edited by Michael Frassetto

Military History

More Info: Vol. 15, Pp. 88-100

Publisher: Haskins Society Journal

Publication Date: 2004

Military History

More Info: Vol. 2, 53-71

Publication Date: 2004

Publication Name: Journal of Medieval Military History

More Info: Pre-publication draft; consult the published Encyclopedia for the final version.

Publisher: Oxford UP

Publication Date: 2010

Publication Name: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Edited by Clifford Rogers

Pre-production proof

English Kings

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2010

Publication Name: The Encyclopedia of War

Pre-production proof

English Kings

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2010

Publication Name: The Encyclopedia of War

Publisher: medievalists.net

Publication Date: 2001

Upcoming colloquium in Ghent, December 10-11

Chivalry (Medieval Studies), Medieval Warfare, Knighthood, and Medieval Knights

A paper delivered at the 2009 International Congress on Medieval Studies. (Limited footnotes, esp. for secondary studies)

Military History, Medieval Military History, Anglo-Norman history, Siege Warfare, Anglo Norman and Angevin England, and 2 more

A paper delivered at the 2013 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan

Chivalry (Chivalry), Chivalry (Medieval Studies), Chivalric literature, John of Salisbury, and Knighthood

A talk given at Loyola University, Maryland, in April 2014.

Medieval Warfare, John of Salisbury, Thomas Becket, and Knighthood

Conference paper from the April 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History. [*Working draft only*--citations and quotes are probably correct but not a finished copy by any means!]

Generalship, Medieval Warfare, and Richard I The Lionheart