Trent and Beyond: The Council, Other Powers, Other Cultures. Michela Catto and Adriano Prosperi, eds. Mediteranean Nexus 1100–1700 4. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 620 pp. €140.
in bellum—from what was considered the right war to what should be considered the right way of fighting. This new reflection becomes the preamble to new books for soldiers (educational treatises) that come together with military reforms of the eighteenth century. A significant characteristic of the book is the successful link between the analyzed treatises and contemporary that influenced their writing. With simple but not banal writing, the book meets the interest of historians as well as common people who want to know the past. The author tries to encourage people to go deeper, providing readers with some easy-to-find bibliographical references. This attempt by Lavenia is commendable in a historical period when, more and more often, history is transformed into fiction or into anecdotes without traces of depth.