Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics

by Bert S. Hall and Professor Bert S. Hall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801869943
• ISBN13: 9780801869945
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher