Professor William Urban of the Monmouth College Department of History spoke last night (2/27/07) at the Warren County Public Library in Monmouth, Illinois about his newly published book, MEDIEVAL MERCENARIES--THE BUSINESS OF WAR. About thirty local residents discovered that Urban's newest book, true to the Greenwood Books review, was both "absorbing and entertaining." A number of provocative questions after the address moved the audience and Urban into discussions of the definitions of "mercenary" in the modern world and the nature of today's armed conflicts in relationship to those of the Middle Ages.
The program was sponsored jointly by the Warren County Public Library Board and the local OFTA(Old Friends Talk Arts) group. OFTA is partially supported by the Buchanan Center for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council--a state agency.
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