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Dr. John D. Hosler

Associate Professor; Honors Faculty

 

Medieval Europe; pre-modern warfare; England; pre-modern religion

Ph.D. History - Univ. of Delaware
M.A. History - Iowa State Univ.
M.A. English Literature - Iowa State Univ.
B.A. English/History - Iowa State Univ

Courses

The Ancient World; Medieval & Renaissance Europe; History of England I & II; the Crusades; the American Military Experience; Historiography; World History I & II (Honors)

Select Publications (full CV here)

  • John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (forthcoming, Brill Academic Press, June 2013).
  • "Why Didn't King Stephen Crusade?" in International Medieval Research (forthcoming, Brepols, 2013).
  • "Hundred Years War," in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Military History, ed. D. Showalter (forthcoming, Oxford UP, 2013).
  • "Military Technology in the Writings of John of Salisbury," in ACTA of the 38th Congress of the International Commission for Military History (forthcoming, 2013).
  • Henry II: a Medieval Soldier at War, 1147-1189 (Brill, 2007).
  • "Henry II, king of England" and "Richard I, king of England," in The Encyclopedia of War, ed. G. Martel, 5 vols. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
  • "Henry II," "Mercenaries," "Robert Curthose," "Rochester, Siege of (1088)," and "William the Conqueror," in Medieval Warfare and Military Technology: an Encyclopedia, ed. C. Rogers, 3 vols. (Oxford UP, 2010).
  • "Peter of Celle," in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. R.E. Bjork, 4 vols. (Oxford UP, 2010).
  • "The Norman Era," in Knights: In History and Legend (Global Books, 2009), 166-83.
  • "Revisiting Mercenaries Under Henry fitz Empress, 1167-1188," in Mercenaries and Paid Men: the Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages, ed. J. France (Brill, 2008), 33-42.
  • "William of Newburgh, Henry II, and the Development of English Anti-Judaism," in Christian Attitudes towards the Jews in the Middle Ages: a Casebook, ed. M. Frassetto (Rutledge, 2007), 167-82.
  • "The Brief Military Career of Thomas Becket," Haskins Society Journal 15 (2006): 88-100.
  • "Henry II's Military Campaigns in Wales, 1157 and 1165," Journal of Medieval Military History 2 (2004): 53-71.
  • Book reviews in: Speculum; Journal of Military History; Journal of British Studies; Arthuriana; Deremilitari.org; The Medieval Review; Military History Magazine; History: Reviews of New Books
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