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Two 15th-century documents concerning Crossbow-Shooting in the Marquisate of Mantua

by DRM_peter Posted on March 21, 2025

Dilecte noster. Voressemo che come da te tu monstrassi haver inteso che nui a questa Pasqua de Mazo proxima vogliamo far trare cum le balestre quatro o cinque presii, tra li quali ge ne serà uno forsi de XX braza … Continue reading →

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Byzantines, Avars and the Introduction of the Trebuchet

by Sandra Alvarez Posted on June 9, 2014

Byzantines, Avars and the Introduction of the Trebuchet Stephen McCotter The Queen’s University of Belfast (2003) While there has been much debate over when the traction trebuchet appeared in the west and the extent to which it replaced late-antique torsion … Continue reading →

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Fighting for Land – Fighting for Power: War Aim Making in Renaissance Europe

by Sandra Alvarez Posted on May 26, 2014

Fighting for Land – Fighting for Power: War Aim Making in Renaissance Europe Harald Kleinschmidt The Way of the Knight and the Aesthetics of Women (2003) 1. Introduction During the twentieth century, war has mainly been equated it with a … Continue reading →

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Hales — Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour (Walton)

by Steven Walton Posted on March 11, 2014

Robert Hales Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime’s Passion London: Robert Hales, 2013, 400 pp., £85 [note 1] ISBN 978-0-9926315-0-5 This gorgeous collector’s volume of arms and armour covering most of Asia is a stunning book. It includes numerous … Continue reading →

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The Trebuchet

by Sandra Alvarez Posted on February 11, 2014

The Trebuchet Paul E. Chevedden, Les Eigenbrod, Vernard Foley and Werner Soedel Scientific American (July 1995) Abstract Centuries before the development of e›ective cannons, huge artillery pieces were demolishing castle walls with projectiles the weight of an upright piano. The … Continue reading →

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Medieval siege warfare: A reconnaissance

by Sandra Alvarez Posted on November 4, 2013

Medieval siege warfare: A reconnaissance Bernard S. Bachrach The Journal of Military History, vol. 58 no. 1 (January, 1994) Abstract Historians writing during the later nineteenth and the twentieth centuries unambiguously recognized the importance, indeed the central role, played by siege … Continue reading →

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The Military Revolution from a Medieval Perspective

by Sandra Alvarez Posted on November 4, 2013

The Military Revolution from a Medieval Perspective Andrew Ayton and J.L. Price The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Although there is continuing disagreement concerning the essential nature of the military revolution; … Continue reading →

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Chronicle of James the Conqueror, Siege of Burriana (1233)

by Nicolas Agrait Posted on February 26, 2013

James I, King of Aragon (1208-76), king of Aragón and count of Barcelona (1213-76), was nicknamed the Conquerer because of his many wars and conquests, which included the capture of the Balearic Islands (1229-35) and Valencia (1238) form the Moors, … Continue reading →

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Purton — History of the Early Medieval Siege c.450-1220 (Eads)

by DRM_admin Posted on December 30, 2012

Peter Purton A History of the Early Medieval Siege c.450-1220. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2009. Pp. xxvii+505.  ISBN 978-1-84383-448-9. As the date range in the title implies, this book is only half of the author’s history of medieval siege warfare.  … Continue reading →

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Walton, The Art of Gunnery in Renaissance England (PhD, 1999)

by DRM_admin Posted on November 6, 1999

Steven Ashton Walton The Art of Gunnery in Renaissance England Ph.D., IHPST, University of Toronto, 1999 Abstract Previous histories of artillery have concentrated on the guns themselves and their use in military actions, whereas this dissertation attempts to understand those guns as … Continue reading →

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