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Monday 13 May 2013

Other People's Publications - Medieval Wafare magazine

In a previous post, AWB happily poked fun and implied errors in a bit of free to air TV and in doing so managed to write a review that takes longer to read then the show takes to watch.
However in all honesty, and you readers do not really know how hard it is for AWB to actually confess this, the knowledge of the Medieval Period for AWB has to be at best 'passing.'
This in no way detracts from the interest in the period and AWB would like to name drop a few publications that may be of interest.
First is Medieval Warfare, a bi-monthly magazine published by Karwansaray Publishers in the Netherlands.
They have a website, http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com, also publish an 'Ancient Warfare' and a 'Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy' magazine and AWB picked his copy up over the counter for $A14 from his trusty local gaming shop.
The tone is more that of the scholarly historian and hence may be a heavy going for the casual fan but their production standards are very high and they include some very impressive painted art work of medieval types beating the snot out of each other.
Not attempting to be seen as shamelessly promoting what is after all a commercial venture, but AWB believes these magazines are not as well known as they could be and probably well worth a look for any serious historical gamers.
Second, and getting back to the previous post about Trebuchets, we have 'A History of the Early Medieval Siege c.450-1200' by Gareth Williams. Now AWB does not own this book and interest only comes from the review published in the magazine mentioned above. Indeed having re-read the review post publishing the most recent TV review, AWB may be forced to confess that some of the generalisations made in that post were, ummm, wrong, but hopefully those errors will soon be buried, forgotten and denied.
Again, sight unseen by this blog, but given the recent siege themes, a book that may be of interest.
Of completely unrelated interest, it should be known that the spell checking function of 'blogger.com', a software system designed so Mister and Misses Public can create and publish their own blogs easily, does not actually recognise the word 'blog'. Go figure.

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