at 4pm
Room 407 (Lecture Theatre A), Boyd Orr Building

Research seminar hosted jointly by Medieval History and The Scottish Centre for War Studies and Battlefield Archaeology

Professor Clifford Rogers, 'The Campaign and Battle of Poitiers, 1356: What Can We Conclude ‘Beyond a Reasonable Doubt’? 

Professor Rogers is Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is one of the foremost historians of medieval warfare and has written extensively on the Hundred Years War, with a particular focus on the strategy and campaigns of the kings of England, on the Military Revolution and its medieval dimensions, and on a range of fourteenth and fifteenth century chronicles and other texts. His many publications include War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1333-1360 (Woodbridge, 2000); The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations (Woodbridge, 1999); Civilians in the Path of War, edited with Mark Grimsley (London and Lincoln Nebraska, 2002); The Military Revolution Debate, (ed.) (Boulder, Colorado,  1995); and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology (ed.), 3 vols(Oxford University, 2010). He is currently working on an edition and translation of the 14th c St Omer chronicle. 

His many prizes and awards include the Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize Medal; the Society for Military History Moncado Prize and Distinguished Book Award; the De Re Militari’s Verbruggen Prize; the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award; and the Society for Military History's George C. Marshall Foundation Prize for the Use of Digital Technology in Teaching Military History. 

All are welcome.

The battle of Poitiers, 1356, as depicted in a late fifteenth century copy of Jean Froissart's Chroniques (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Fr 2643 f.207).

First published: 26 August 2022

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