Medieval Warfare: Technology, Military Revolutions, and Strategy

Clifford J. Rogers is a Professor of History and co-Director of the Digital History Center at West Point. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of thirteen books, and twenty volumes of the Journal of Medieval Military History. His work has been honored with a Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, Moncado Prize, and digital military history award; the Royal Historical Society Alexander Prize; three Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards; two Verbruggen book prizes and the Bachrach Medal from De Re Militari; and the USMA Dean’s Award for Career Teaching Excellence.

Technology and Military Revolutions

1. “The Idea of Military Revolutions in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Texts,” Revista de História das Ideias 30 (2009): 395-415.

2. “Carolingian Cavalry in Battle: The Evidence Reconsidered,” in Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages: Realities and Representations. Essays in Honour of John France, ed. Simon John and Nicolas Morton (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), 1-11.

3. “The Longbow, the Infantry Revolution, and Technological Determinism (Expanded Version),” originally pubished in a shorter version in The Journal of Medieval History 37 (2011): 321-341.

4. “The Artillery and Artillery Fortress Revolutions Revisited,” in Nicolas Prouteau, Emmanuel de Crouy-Chanel and Nicolas Faucherre, eds., Artillerie et Fortification, 1200-1600 (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011): 75-80.

5. “Gunpowder Artillery in Europe, 1326-1500: Innovation and Impact,” in Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.; Sarah K. Douglas; and Daniel P. M. Curzon, eds., Technology, Violence and War. Essays in Honor of John F. Guilmartin, Jr. (Leiden: Brill, 2019): 39-71.

6. ““Tactics and the Face of Battle, 1350-1750,” shorter version originally published as “Tactics and the Face of Battle,” in Frank Tallett and D.J.B. Trim, eds. European Warfare, 1350-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010): 203-235.

Strategy

7. “Giraldus Cambrensis, Edward I, and the Conquest of Wales,” in Successful Strategies. Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present, ed. Williamson Murray and Richard Hart Sinnreich (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2014), 65-99.

8. “The Anglo-Burgundian Alliance and Grand Strategy in the Hundred Years War,” Grand Strategy and Military Alliances, ed. Peter R. Mansoor and Williamson Murray (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016): 216-253.

9. “Medieval Strategy and the Economics of Conquest,” The Journal of Military History 82 (2018): 709-38.