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DeVries, Kelly, Guns and Men in Medieval Europe (1200-1500): Studies in Military History and Technology, Aldershot, Ashgate Variorum (Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS747), 2002, 370 pp.
- Resum
- These articles are devoted to the two main aspects of medieval warfare: men and technology. Men fought, led, and ultimately killed in war, while the technology that they used facilitated these tasks. The first group of essays highlights human strengths in the fighting of medieval wars, with a focus on events of the 14th and 15th centuries, specifically the Anglo-French wars and wars against the Turks. A second group addresses the technological side of warfare, in particular the advent and proliferation of early gunpowder weapons which evolved rapidly during the late Middle Ages, although never replacing the role of men. The articles study various facets of this evolution, from the increased use and effectiveness of guns in battles, sieges, and naval warfare, to changes in their science and metallurgy, surgical treatment of wounds caused by them, and governmental centralization of the technology.
Contents:
I: God and defeat in medieval warfare: some preliminary thoughts
II: Medieval declarations of war: an example from 1212
III: God, leadership, Flemings and archery: contemporary perceptions of victory and defeat at the Battle of Sluys, 1340
IV: Contemporary views of Edward III's failure at the Siege of Tournai, 1340
V: Hunger, Flemish participation and the flight of Philip VI: contemporary accounts of the Siege of Calais, 1346–47
VI: A woman as leader of men: Joan of Arc's military career
VII: The lack of a Western European military response to the Ottoman invasions of Eastern Europe from Nicopolis (1396) to Mohács (1526)
VIII: The forgotten battle of Bevershoutsveld, 3 May, 1382: technological innovation and military significance
IX: The use of gunpowder weaponry by and against Joan of Arc during the Hundred Years War
X: Gunpowder weaponry at the Siege of Constantinople, 1453
XI: Gunpowder and early gunpowder weapons
XII: The technology of gunpowder weaponry in Western Europe during the Hundred Years War
XIII: The impact of gunpowder weaponry on siege warfare in the Hundred Years War
XIV: The effectiveness of 15th-century shipboard artillery
XV: A 1445 reference to shipboard artillery
XVI: Gunpowder weaponry and the rise of the early modern state
XVII: DeVries (1990), "Military surgical practice and ..."
XVIII: Catapults are not atomic bombs: towards a redefinition of 'effectiveness' in premodern military technology
- Matèries
- Història
Guerra
Tècniques
Medicina - Cirurgia i anatomia
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