The early modern period saw gunpowder weapons reach maturity and become a central feature of European warfare, on land and at sea. This exciting collection of essays brings together a distinguished and varied selection of modern scholarship on the transformation of waroften described as a military revolutionduring the period between 1450 and 1660.
Contents: Series preface; Introduction; The 'military revolution',
1560-1660 - a myth?, Geoffrey Parker; The military revolutions of the Hundred
Years War, Clifford J. Rogers; 'Of nimble service': technology, equestrianism
and the cavalry arm of early modern European armies, Gervase Phillips; The
cannon conquest of Nasrid Spain and the end of the Reconquista, Weston F.
Cook Jr; Sword and spade: military construction in renaissance Italy, Simon
Pepper; The utility of fortifications in early modern Europe: Italian princes
and their citadels, David Parrott; The international mercenary market in the
16th century: Anglo-French competition in Germany, David Potter; 'Doctors of
the military discipline': technical expertise and the paradigm of the Spanish
soldier in the early modern period, Fernando GonzƔlez de Leon; Mutiny and
discontent in the Spanish army of Flanders 1572-1607, Geoffrey Parker;
Middle-class society and the rise of military professionalism: the Dutch
army, 1589-1609, M.D. Feld; The militarization of the Elizabethan state, John
S. Nolan; Ottoman artillery and European military technology in the 15th and
17th centuries, GĆ”bor Ćgoston; Early-modern colonial warfare and the
campaign of Alcazarquivir, 1578, David Trim; The Dreadnought revolution of
Tudor England, Geoffrey Parker; So why were the Aztecs conquered, and what
were the wider implications? Testing military superiority as a cause of
Europe's pre-industrial colonial conquests, George Raudzens; Strategy and
tactics in the Thirty Years' War: the 'military revolution', David A.
Parrott; The socio-economic relations of warfare and the military mortality
crises of the Thirty Years' War, Quentin Outram; IName index.
Paul E.J. Hammer has published extensively on Elizabethan politics and political culture, as well as on Tudor England and the waging of war. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews.
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