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Kelly DeVries

Kelly Robert DeVries is an American medievalist and military historian specializing in the warfare of the Middle Ages. He is often featured as an expert commentator on television documentaries. He is professor of history at Loyola University Maryland and Honorary Historical Consultant at the Royal Armouries, UK.

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Kelly DeVries
Born (1956-12-23) December 23, 1956
OccupationMedievalist, military historian
EducationUniversity of Toronto (PhD)
SubjectMedieval warfare

Kelly Robert DeVries (born December 23, 1956) is an American medievalist and military historian specializing in the warfare of the Middle Ages. He is often featured as an expert commentator on television documentaries. He is professor of history at Loyola University Maryland and Honorary Historical Consultant at the Royal Armouries, UK.

Education

DeVries received his PhD in medieval studies in 1987 from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.1

Awards

DeVries with co-editor Michael Livingston was named as one of the recipients of the 2017 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History for their book The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook. A second Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History was shared in 2020 by the two for Medieval Warfare: A Reader.2

Selected works

Collaborations

  • with Matthew Bennett, Jim Bradbury, Ian Dickie and Phyllis Jestice: (2005) Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World: AD 500-AD 1500, Amber Books, ISBN 1-86227-299-9
  • (2005) The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy 1363-1477 (co-written Robert Douglas Smith) Boydell Press. ISBN 1843831627 OCLC 60322326
  • (2007) Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of their Impact (co-written Robert Douglas Smith). ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851095315 OCLC 163587639
  • (2011) Rhodes Besieged, 1480-1522: a New History (co-written Robert Douglas Smith) History Press.
  • (2012) Medieval Military Technology 2nd ed. (co-written Robert Douglas Smith) University of Toronto Press.
  • (2015) The Battle of Crecy: a Casebook (co-written Michael Livingston) University of Liverpool Press. (UK) ISBN 9781781382646 OCLC 932592007
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