Finding Aid for the John Herbert Beeler Manuscript, 1953
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John H. Beeler was a UNCG professor and a scholar in the area of European military history. This manuscript is for his book Warfare in England, 1066-1189.
MSS 114
1 linear foot, 2 legal size archival boxes.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], John Herbert Beeler Manuscript (MSS 114), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Gift of the author.
John H. Beeler, retired Army captain and professor of history at UNCG, began his study of English medieval warfare when he was a graduate student at Cornell University. His Cornell doctoral dissertation was a study of the role of the castle in the military history of England, and this study was expanded in his book, Warfare in England, 1066-1189. Beeler also revised and edited The Art of War in the Middle Ages, by CWC Oman, wrote Warfare in Feudal Europe, 730-1200, and contributed to other scholarly works on military history.
This manuscript is for Warfare in England, 1066-1189; it is an original typescript of 634 p., with handwritten notations and corrections. One galley-proof is for this book; the other for The Art of War in the Middle Ages.
Box 1
Typescript.
Box 2
Galley-proofs.
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