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Armies of Castile and Aragon 1370-1516
By John Pohl
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Armies of Castile and Aragon depicts the fighting men whose skill and tactical flexibility made Spain into a world power at the close of the Middle Ages, carving out empires from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean. Much has been written of the men who fought in the Hundred Years' War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses. But meanwhile, on the Iberian peninsula, the foundations of Spain's military 'Golden Age' were being laid as the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon under the Trastamara dynasty grew in power, ambition and success.
This book features spectacular full-color artwork, and rare manuscript illustrations.
This book features spectacular full-color artwork, and rare manuscript illustrations.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Men-at-Arms is Osprey's least attractive series in need of a relaunch. To celebrate the 500th title in the series, quite an achievement, they selected what turned out to be another helicopter book. Its author is a specialist in the ancient art and writing of Mexico but almost a tourist in European medieval history. Thus expect even more mistakes than usual in an Osprey title such as Swiss wearing turbans.Besides the turban-wearing Swiss, there is an illustration of the battle of Sluys between the English and the French, some more French and Italians etc. This would not matter if the Men-at-Arms titles weren't restricted to 48 pages. The illustrations of John of Gaunt and Christopher Columbus further reduce the space dedicated to the nominal title of the "Armies of Aragon and Castille". The actual focus of the booklet is the struggle between the Angevins and the Aragonese for the control of Sicily and Naples - for which it ends too soon with its cut-off date of 1516 (while it also fails to tell the beginning of the story).Limiting the focus to Spain and the fight for unification of the peninsula under one family would have allowed to present important local actors such as the Military Order of Santiago and the other orders that played an important political role. It would also have permitted a glance at what happened at the French border (which is completely cut out while the easy accessible sources of English involvement are given outsized presence - without, however, mentioning Henry VIII's queen Catherine of Aragon). The plates by Gerry Embleton are competently done.The well-made recent Spanish TV drama series "Isabel" has shown how interesting and multi-faceted this era was. It would really merit a treatment by an actual expert not an interested tourist in the matter who then could also present local sources and illustrations to a greater audience.