Out of the Darkness: Short Essays on the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Revolution

Charles R. King utilizes his academic education in physics and classical history to apply original analysis to examine specific topics of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and revolution of warfare.

This work contains nine short essays: The Role of Cavalry in Medieval Warfare, The Byzantine Empire of the Ninth Century, The Resurgence of Infantry in the Later Middle Ages, Beginning of the End: The Battle of Manzikert 1071 A.D., The Military Revolution of the Seventeenth Century, Imperial and Colonial Conflicts of the Eighteenth Century, The French Levee de Masse, Napoleon: Operational Brilliance and Strategic Oversight, and Warfare and the Industrial Revolution. Accessible to both the professional historian and the buff, these essays are easy to read and enable the reader to approach this period with a fresh outlook.