Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe
Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; 22;
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date of Publication 1 January 2002
- ISBN 9780801869945
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 240x187x19 mm
- Weight 482 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 Illustrations, black & white 0
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Short description:
Hall details the efforts of armorers across Europe as they experimented with a variety of gunpowder recipes and gunsmithing techniques, and he examines the integration of new weapons into the existing structure of European warfare.
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Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize from the Canadian Historical Association
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technology—and challenging past assumptions about Europe's "gunpowder revolution"—Hall discovers a complex and fascinating story. Military inventors faced a host of challenges, he finds, from Europe's lack of naturally occurring saltpeter—one of gunpowder's major components—to the limitations of smooth-bore firearms. Manufacturing cheap, reliable gunpowder proved a difficult feat, as did making firearms that had reasonably predictable performance characteristics. Hall details the efforts of armorers across Europe as they experimented with a variety of gunpowder recipes and gunsmithing techniques, and he examines the integration of new weapons into the existing structure of European warfare.
Hall has long been recognized as a leading authority on early modern military technology. Scholars of the period and historians in general will find this the best treatment to date of the impact of gunpowder on Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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