Clifford J. Rogers is a professor of history at the

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. He has also been a

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Visiting Professor at

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, an Olin Fellow in Military and Strategic History at

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, and a Fulbright Fellow at the

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in London.

Career

Rogers writes mainly on medieval military history. Rogers is the editor of the three-volume ''Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology'', which received a Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History, ''The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations'', and ''The Military Revolution Debate''. He is co-editor of ''The Journal of Medieval Military History'', ''The West Point History of the Civil War'', ''The West Point History of World War II'', and ''The West Point History of the American Revolution'' (each of which received an Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award), and the essay collection ''Civilians in the Path of War''. He is co-Senior Editor of the 71-chapter interactive digital military history textbook ''The West Point History of Warfare'', which received the 2016 Society of Military History - George C. Marshall Foundation Prize for the Use of Digital Technology in Teaching Military History. Although Rogers' work on military revolutions has found favor with many historians, some (including

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and John Stone) argue that his analysis suffers from "

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Honors and awards

His ''War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360'' won the 2003 Verbruggen Prize awarded by De Re Militari. He has also been awarded the

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's Alexander Prize medal and a

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Moncado Prize for his articles, some of which are collected in his ''Essays on Medieval Military History: Strategy, Military Revolutions and the Hundred Years War.'' His ''Soldiers' Lives through History: The Middle Ages'' received the 2009 Verbruggen Prize. A podcast of a lecture based on part of that book, focusing on the soldier's experience of battle, has been posted online by the New York Military Affairs Symposium.

Select bibliography

''The Wars of Edward III: Sources and Interpretations'', ed. Clifford J. Rogers (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1999). aperback ed. 2010. ''War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327-1360'' (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000). aperback ed. 2014. ''Soldiers’ Lives through History: The Middle Ages'' (New York: Greenwood, 2007). ''Essays on Medieval Military History: Strategy, Military Revolutions, and the Hundred Years War'' (London: Ashgate/Variorum, 2010).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rogers, Clifford J. Living people Academics of Swansea University American medievalists American military historians American male non-fiction writers Yale University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Fulbright alumni