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Podcast: New Books in Medieval History
Episode: Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
Description: In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages (Polity, 2022), Dr. Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across China and the central Asian steppes to southwest Asia, western Europe, and beyond, Morillo explores the technological, social, cultural, and environmental determinants of warfare and the tools and tactics used by warriors on land and at sea.Part I explains the geographical, political, and technological rules that shaped patterns of mi...