Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe

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  • Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe Book Detail

  • Author : Bert S. Hall
  • Release Date : 2002-01-01
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Genre : Technology & Engineering
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9780801869945
  • File Size : 65,65 MB
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Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe by Bert S. Hall PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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