Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe by Bert S Hall
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 technologyScholars 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. History: Reviews of New Books Combines a good grasp of military history with an understanding of the history of technology... Hall manages to integrate his technical discussion into a refreshing reinterpretation of general military history in the period, and his book is an engrossing read. American Historical Review
Bert S. Hall is associate professor at the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and co-editor of Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801869945 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801869943 |
| Title | Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe |
| Author | Bert S Hall |
| Series | Johns Hopkins Studies In The History Of Technology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 2002-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Canadian Historical Association Wallace K. Ferguson Prize 1998 (Canada) |
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