The Medieval Military Engineer - From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Peter Purton Klappentext Sheds light on the skills and techniques of the medieval military engineer, over a thousand year sweep. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceMilitary engineers in the Middle AgesLate Antiquity and the early "middle ages": were the "Dark Ages" really dark?Anonymous but effective: the engineers and technicians of the ninth to eleventh centuriesThe engineer recognisedEngineers in demand: innovation and development in the thirteenth centuryOld and new technology and its operators in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuriesPolymaths and specialists in the fifteenth centuryPostscript: from medieval to [early] modern in the sixteenth centuryAppendix: Military engineers and miners in the Pipe Rolls of the English ExchequerBibliography of primary sourcesBibliography of secondary sources

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dr Peter Purton, P. F. Purton, Peter Purton
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781783272785
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-278-5
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Armour and Weapons; Armour and Weapons
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Mittelalter; Sachbuch