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Medieval Mercenary: Sir John Hawkwood of Essex
  
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Medieval Mercenary: Sir John Hawkwood of Essex (Paperback)

by Christopher Starr (Author)
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  • Paperback: 92 pages
  • Publisher: Essex Record Office Publications (Dec 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1898529272
  • ISBN-13: 978-1898529279
  • Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 20.6 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 220,732 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST TREATMENT, 17 Oct 2008
By Stephen Cooper (South Yorkshire, England) - See all my reviews
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After a lapse of over 100 years, there has at last been a revival of interest, in England, in Hawkwood. Christopher Starr has produced (2007) one of the best treatments of the subject, to complement Temple-Leader (1889), Stonor-Saunders (2004), William Caferro (2006) and (dare I add) myself (2008). Though this book does not profess to be a military biography, Starr's account of Hawkwood's career in Italy is gripping and clear, and he is exceptionally good on Essex, on Hawkwood's family in, and connections with, that county, on genealogy and heraldry, and on his Englishness, which was central to his character.

This book is very well produced and beautifully illustrated. Starr has clearly spent many years working on it, and it shows. The writing style is easy and the text flows, but it is a work which is based on long hours of research. The learning is fundamental but unobtrusive. I had not seen his reference to Astronomy (pp 33-4) before. The glossary is necessary and the endnotes complete.

There are some things I would take issue with. He says (p 15) that there is as yet no authoritative biography; but this is to ignore William Caferro's magisterial contribution in 2006. He consistently spells Cotignola as 'Cortignola'. He has swallowed the Florentine propaganda about the atrocities in Cesena; and it is surely an exaggeration to say that Hawkwood is known in Italy nowadays as 'the butcher of Cesena.' I wonder, myself, whether the longbow was truly a battle-winning weapon in Italy; and whether Hawkwood was really one of the first generals to deploy field artillery (p 33).

But Christopher Starr has been a soldier - the only one of his biographers, so far as I know, who can make that claim. Perhaps it takes a soldier to write convincingly about Hawkwood? After all, that is what he was, quintessentially.

I wish this book well.

Stephen Cooper (Author of Sir John Hawkwood, Chivalry & the Art of War (2008))


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