Medieval Military Technology

✍ Scribed by Kelly Robert DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 366
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: 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 II: 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 III: 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 IV: 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

✦ Subjects

Военные дисциплины;История военного дела;