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Episode #66, "The Battle of the Golden Spurs" Maps and Sources
SOURCES DeVries, Kelly. Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century: Discipline, Tactics, and Technology. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2006. Nicholas, David. Medieval Flanders. London: Longman, 1992. Verbruggen, J. F. The Battle of the Golden Spurs: Courtrai, 11 July 1302 . Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1952. MAPS It's actually kinda hard to find a good map of Flanders in the 14th Century! Here are a few. Here's Flanders as part of the Kingdom of France in 1180; it's a
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Episode #65, "Soldier and Fortune" Maps and Sources
SOURCES Caferro, William. John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Cooper, Stephen. Sir John Hawkwood: Chivalry and the Art of War. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2008. Mallett, Michael. Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy. Totowa, N.J.; Rowman and Littlefield, 1974. Saunders, Frances Stonor. Hawkwood: The Diabolical Englishman. London: Faber and Faber, 2004. Tuchman, Barbara. A D
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Episode #64, "The Life and Times of Sir William Marshal," Maps and Sources
A brief discussion: If you want to read a modern, accessible biography of William Marshal, Thomas Asbridge's is the best, and it can be easily picked up at most online bookstores, big bookstores like B&N, and Kindle - or on Audible. David Crouch's very academic biography is more critical; he doesn't know if he likes Marshal or not, while Painter's much older biography is a great read and he treats William like the second coming. Biography is a dangerous realm for historians,
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Dec 22, 20252 min read
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Episode #63, "Furies of Britannia", & Short Round: General Agricola at the Edge of the World, sources and maps
SOURCES Aldhouse-Green, Miranda. Boudica Britannia. New York: Routledge, 2006. Campbell, Duncan B. Mons Graupius AD 83: Rome's Battle at the Edge of the World. Oxford: Osprey, 2010. Cassius Dio. Roman History. Trans. from Greek by Earnest Carey. Harvard University, 1914-1927. Dudley, Donald R. and Graham Webster. The Rebellion of Boudicca. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. Fields, Nic. Britannia AD 43: The Claudian Invasion. Oxford: Osprey, 2020. Fields, Nic. Boudicca's
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Nov 2, 20251 min read
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Episodes #61 and #62, "Wailing Walls: Part 1" and "Wailing Walls: Part 2" Maps and Sources
SOURCES Recommendation for casual readers is Seward. Single best academic work is Rogers. DeSilva, David A. Judea Under Greek and Roman...
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Sep 13, 20251 min read
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