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Showing 3 reviews submitted by David Lohnes:  English Martial Arts by Terry Brown  This book investigates the weapons, history and development of the English fighting system and some of the beliefs and social pressures that helped mould it. The ...
Not Recommended  Show DetailsReviewed by David Lohnes Get this book via interlibrary loan; don't buy it.
It was written in the late 90s when HEMA studies were in their infancy, and although I loudly applaud Terry Brown for being on the forefront of the HEMA movement, this book is nowhere near the quality of other HEMA offerings now available. From the perspective of current HEMA ... • Read full review —Updated Feb 27, 2010 A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman  "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." CommentaryThe 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering ...
Not Recommended Show DetailsReviewed by David Lohnes I very much enjoyed Tuchman's book on the Zimmerman telegram when I picked it up more than a decade ago, and I was thus very excited when I bought a pristine first-edition copy of this work on the cheap at a used book store. But my hopes that I'd found an excellent introduction to late Medieval history were not realized. The reviews I read in various ... • Read full review —Updated Feb 26, 2010 England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings, 1075-1225 (New Oxford History of England) by Robert Bartlett  This lively and far-reaching account of the politics, religion, and culture of England in the century and a half after the Norman Conquest provides a vivid picture ...
* RECOMMENDED * Show DetailsReviewed by David Lohnes This book is a definitive study of England from William I to John. It's a detailed, readable book that can either be read straight through or searched via the index for more topical reading. It covers a wide variety of social, political, and martial topics. Especially interesting for me was the explanation of how kingship worked in England when English ... • Read full review —Updated Feb 26, 2010 |
