Michael Prestwich is Professor of History at the University of Durham. Michael Prestwich is Professor of History at the University of Durham.
[The author's] work remains eminently worth reading, and we owe a
debt of gratitude to Michael Prestwich for granting us access to
it.
*DE RE MILITARI*
This is a very valuable collection of lectures, and it is useful to
have them drawn together in an attractive volume. Prestwich deals
with questions that remain of fundamental importance, such as the
role of war in stimulating administrative, social and economic
developments, and the extent to which warfare and its governmental,
social and economic context changed (or remained the same) between
the late eleventh and the early thirteenth centuries.
*EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY*
The splendid analyses of the economy, of warfare, and of much more,
not least sea power, will ensure that this book will remain seminal
for many years.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*
There is much here that may be read with profit by medievalists and
military historians alike.
*THE JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY*
A masterpiece. [...] Detailed and argumentative yet stylish and
accessible.[...] The product of a lifetime's reading and thinking
on the subject, Prestwich's work is fascinating, enjoyable, and
above all a wise book.
*BBC HISTORY*
Written with wit and passion, the lectures are models of clarity in
both style and methodology.
*THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW*
This book should be read by all aspiring - and most fulfilled-
medievalists as an object lesson in detail, rigour, laced with good
sense, some humour and often unexpected flashes of humanity.
*WAR IN HISTORY*
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