Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe

Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics

By: Bert S. Hall

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Paperback | 16 March 2002

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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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""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.""

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List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Alternative Weapons and Tactics in the Later Middle Ages	p. 9
Gunpowder's First Century, ca. 1325-ca. 1425	p. 41
Black Powder in the Fifteenth Century	p. 67
Firearms in Warfare (I): The Fifteenth Century	p. 105
Interlude: Smoothbore Ballistics	p. 134
Firearms in Warfare (II): The Sixteenth Century	p. 157
Technology and the Military Revolution	p. 201
Notes	p. 237
Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 289
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