The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
72 Chapter Three Overall, therefore, the picture of European economic development in the fourteenth century is not completely bl ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600^73 harassed businessman. Efficiency and personal inclination thus tended to coincide. A ...
the soldiers did not consume directly on the spot. Such a traveling company was, in effect, a migratory city, for cities, too, l ...
The Business of War in Europe. 1000–1600 75 some neighboring border fortress or the like. The relationship was conceived simply ...
(^76) Chapter Three Venice, when it launched its first campaigns aimed at conquest on terra firma (1405) took the lead in regula ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 77 The existence of such rivalries and the difficulty of adjusting them smoothly was, i ...
78 Chapter Three ployers. These linkages combined esprit de corps with bureaucratic subordination, loyalty to a commander, and ( ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 79 Put differently, efficient tax collection, debt-funding, and skilled, professional m ...
(^80) Chapter Three tiers required the same delicate combination of diplomatic negotia tion, military readiness, and financial ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600^81 defensive weapons involved the use of guns. The idea that the explo sive power of g ...
(^82) Chapter Three Crécy (1346) he had taken the precaution of supplementing the knightly array with crossbowmen hired in Genoa ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 83 English from France by 1453 after a series of successful campaigns. The same force a ...
Artillery Development in Europe, 1326–1500 These four drawings show how European craftsmen and rulers collaborated to de velop ...
fortification in no more than a few hours. a, Berhard Rathgen, Das Geschütz im Mittelalter (Berlin: VDI, 1928), Tafel 4, Abbildu ...
86 Chapter Three explosion to accelerate the projectile while it traveled the length of the barrel. Such a design produced far h ...
The Business of War in Europe. 1000–1600 87 iron guns.^17 Prior to that time, access to copper and tin was of vital strategic im ...
(^88) Chapter Three the same damage as bombards of three times the size if the gun tubes were made strong enough to fire denser ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 89 Guns of this radically new design accompanied the French army that invaded Italy in ...
90 Chapter Three experimenting for half a century in desultory fashion with ways to make old fortifications better able to withs ...
The Business of War in Europe, 1000–1600 91 Nevertheless, by checking the sovereignty of siege cannon so quickly, the trace ital ...
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