The Normans and their Adversaries at War: Essays in Memory of C. Warren Hollister.(Book Review)

ed. Richard P. Abels and Bernard S. Bachrach (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2001; pp. 232. 50 [pounds sterling]).

This is the latest welcome addition to Boydell's excellent Warfare in History list. It displays a clear cohesion around a perennially fascinating central theme (not always the case in a multi-authored collection of papers). The one brief aberration is Stephen Morillo's return to matters pertaining to Samurai (not known among the Normans' enemies!); none the less, his discussion of terminology is both pertinent and interesting. The book's institutional bias--looking at how wars were supported rather than fought--is exemplified by Niels Lund's study of the …