Title: Medieval military technology /
Authors: DeVries, Kelly, 1956-; Smith, Kay Douglas
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Armor, Medieval; Artillery History; Fortification History; Warships History; Military history, Medieval; Armures médiévales.; Artillerie Histoire.; Fortifications Histoire.; Navires de guerre Histoire.; Histoire militaire médiévale.
Abstract: 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.
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 --^