“The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361-630” by Anthony Kaldellis and Marion Kruse is a new study that challenges the scholarship on the Notitia Dignitatum and offers a diffrent view on the source material. Spanning from Emporer Julian to Heraclius, the analysis provides insights into the military administration of the eastern roman troops.

The Book by Mareike Pohl examines military actions under Frederick I Barbarossa through modern sociological methods, emphasizing rational behavior over the fulfilment of honor in warfare. It reevaluates medieval sources, explores motivations like loot and payment, and challenges traditional honor-driven interpretations with a nuanced, multi-factorial perspective.

Martin Clauss is a professor of Medieval History at the University of Chemnitz. His expertise in medieval warfare is attested by various books, “Militärgeschichte des Mittelalters” being one of his latest (2020), published as part of the C.H.Beck Wissen series.

The book is dedicated to the Starodub war of 1534–1537 between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The author aims to reconstruct the military conflict from its beginning to the armistice phase and the exchange of prisoners.

In his monograph,  Jan Prostko-Prostyński contextualises the history of the Heruls against the background of the migration period. The history of the Heruls shows how the development and migration of a military group in this period should always be understood in a wider context of tension between the Eastern Roman and Western Roman Empires. The few reports by ancient authors have received little attention from previous research and only a few publications on this gens have appeared in recent years.

The book under examination covers the period between 1185 and 1365 and has to do with the history of two nomadic peoples, namely the Cumans and the Tatars.

Kaegis attempts to reexamine materials in the light of new discoveries about seventh-century Byzantium.