Research Catalog

Title

Medieval military technology / Kelly DeVries and Robert Douglas Smith.

Author

DeVries, Kelly, 1956-

Publication

[Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Smith, Kay Douglas

Description

xviii, 356 p. : ill., plans; 23 cm.

Summary

Overview: First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of scholarship, includes fully revised content, new sections on the use of horses, handguns, incendiary weapons, and siege engines, and eighteen new illustrations. The four key organizing sections of the book still remain: arms and armor, artillery, fortifications, and warships. Throughout, the authors connect these technologies to broader themes and developments in medieval society as well as to current scholarly and curatorial controversies.

Subject

• Armor, Medieval
• Artillery > History
• Fortification > History
• Warships > History
• Military history, Medieval
• Armures médiévales
• Artillerie > Histoire
• Fortifications > Histoire
• Navires de guerre > Histoire
• Histoire militaire médiévale

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-346) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Arms And Armor: -- Chapter 1: Arms: -- Spear/lance -- Axe -- Sword -- Dagger -- Staff-weapon -- Mace -- War hammer -- Sling -- Bow -- Crossbow -- Chapter 2: Armor: -- Early medieval armor -- Armor in the Bayeux Tapestry -- Twelfth-century armor -- Shields, helmets, and heraldry in the thirteenth century -- Fourteenth-century body armor -- Cloth-covered armor from the battlefield of Visby -- Later fourteenth-century armor developments -- Plate armor -- Late medieval infantry armor -- Late medieval helmets -- Late medieval shields and barding -- Chapter 3: Stirrup, mounted shock combat, chivalry, and feudalism: -- White's thesis -- Criticism of White's thesis -- Part 2: Artillery: -- Chapter 4: Non-gunpowder artillery: -- Torsion catapults -- Traction trebuchets -- Counterweight trebuchets -- Greek fire -- Chapter 5: Gunpowder artillery: -- Early history of European gunpowder weapons --^
• Siege, battlefield, and naval applications -- Types and manufacturing of gunpowder, gunpowder weapons, and projectiles -- Societal impacts and administrative changes -- Chapter 6: Siege machines: -- Ladders -- Siege towers -- Battering rams and mining devices -- Part 3: Fortifications: -- Chapter 7: Early medieval fortifications: -- Late Roman and Barbarian -- Carolingian -- Viking invasions and reactions -- Chapter 8: Motte-and-bailey castle: -- Influence of William the Conqueror -- Construction techniques -- Chapter 9: Stone castles: -- Origin of stone castles -- Eleventh- and twelfth-century stone castles -- Crusader castles -- Golden Age of castle construction -- Edward I's castles in Wales -- Chapter 10: Urban fortifications and fortified residences: -- Fortified residences -- Town walls -- Influence of gunpowder weapons -- Part 4: Warships: -- Chapter 11: Early medieval warships: -- Late Roman and early medieval ships -- Viking ships -- William the Conqueror's fleet --^
• Chapter 12: High and late medieval warships: -- Crusader ships -- Thirteenth-century ships -- Technological innovations -- Later medieval ships -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781442604971
• 1442604972

OCLC

782101074

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library