Renaissance War Studies

Author : J. R. Hale
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0907628028
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance War Studies written by J. R. Hale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the chapters on warfare in the first three volumes of the New Cambridge Modern History, Sir John Hale's writings on the subject present an original and rich assessment of war's place in Renaissance life and thought. The first section of this collection constitutes a major contribution to the study of Renaissance fortifications, their design, planning and execution, and their political as well as their military significance. The second deals with the recruitment and training of officers and men. In the third, contemporary reactions to war are analysed in a variety of social and intellectual contexts. The archival and literary sources drawn on are primarily Italian, in the second place English, but the imaginative scene is that of western Europe as a whole.

Author : John Rigby Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance War Studies written by John Rigby Hale and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John B. Hattendorf
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9780851159034
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by John B. Hattendorf and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wide-ranging in place and time, yet tightly focused on particular concerns, these new and original specialist articles show how observations on the early history of warfare based on the relatively stable conditions of the late seventeenth century ignore the realities of war at sea in the middle ages and renaissance. In these studies, naval historians firmly grounded in the best current understanding of the period take account of developments in ships, guns and the language of public policy on war at sea, and in so doing give a stimulating introduction to five hundred years of maritime violence in Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bert S. Hall
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801869945
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe written by Bert S. Hall and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : J. R. Hale
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826497926
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance War Studies written by J. R. Hale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1983-07-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the chapters on warfare in the first three volumes of the New Cambridge Modern History, Sir John Hale's writings on the subject present an original and rich assessment of war's place in Renaissance life and thought. The first section of this collection constitutes a major contribution to the study of Renaissance fortifications, their design, planning and execution, and their political as well as their military significance. The second deals with the recruitment and training of officers and men. In the third, contemporary reactions to war are analysed in a variety of social and intellectual contexts. The archival and literary sources drawn on are primarily Italian, in the second place English, but the imaginative scene is that of western Europe as a whole.

Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780060891954
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance at War (Smithsonian History of Warfare) written by Thomas Arnold and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance at War Toward the end of the fifteenth century, modern artillery and portable firearms became the signature weapons of European armies, radically altering the nature of warfare. The new arms transformed society, too, as cities were built and rebuilt to limit the effects of bombardment by cannon. This book follows these far-reaching changes in comprehensive and fascinating detail and demonstrates how the innovations of the Renaissance paved the way to further changes in warfare. An in-depth technical look at the weaponry of the age and the tactical drills that honed the skills of Renaissance soldiers The epic wars abroad between Western Christians and the Muslim Turks Civil strife at home between despotic rulers and rebellious forces Kingly duels that play out on an international stage

Author : David Potter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843834057
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Renaissance France at War written by David Potter and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rulers of Renaissance France regarded war as hugely important. This book shows why, looking at all aspects of warfare from strategy to its reception, depiction and promotion.

Author : Thomas F. Arnold
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9780304363537
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance at War written by Thomas F. Arnold and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the dawning of the Renaissance came technological and social advances that changed forever the art of warfare. Rich with anecdotal detail, a compelling and comprehensive narrative by an expert military historian transports you to the midst of the action as it examines the strategies, campaigns, prominent figures, and key conflicts of the age. From artillery and fortifications to military leadership, from cavalry tactics to the new infantry, from the Crusades to the guerrilla wars in late 16th-century France, penetrating cultural, tactical, and technical analyses plus numerous illustrations, maps, and charts paint a full portrait of Renaissance warfare.

Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196186
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Furies written by Lauro Martines and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forefront Italian Renaissance historian and author of Fire in the City evaluates darker aspects of the Renaissance including the military forces that ravaged Europe and shaped the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity, exploring how massive, mobile armies consumed resources, spread disease and innovated violent new weapons.

Author : John Rigby Hale
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773517653
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620 written by John Rigby Hale and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covering the years between the end of the Hundred Years War and the beginning of the Thirty Years War, this book explains the part played by war in the lives of individuals in the early modern phase of European history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved