The Art of War in the Middle Ages: A.D. 378-1515

This history of medieval warfare, originally written in 1885 when its author--later one of the great medievalists--was still an undergraduate at Oxford, remains for students and general readers one of the best accounts of military art in the Middle Ages between Adrianople in 378 A.D. (the most fearful defeat suffered by a Roman army since Cannae in 216 B.C.) and Marignano (1515 A.D.), the last of the triumphs of the medieval horseman. It was extensively revised and edited by John H. Beeler in 1953 to incorporate many new facts uncovered since the late nineteenth century.

-- "New York Times Book Review"

Author: John H. Beeler
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 07/15/1960
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.56h x 5.02w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780801490620

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 11/06/2003 pg. 55

About the Author

John Beeler is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the other of Warfare in England, 1066-1189, also from Cornell.