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Informationen zum Autor Frank Tallett is Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading and co-Director of its Centre for the Advanced Study of French History. His previous publications include War and Society in Early Modern Europe, 1495–1715 (1992, 2nd edition 2002), Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism since 1750 (with N. Atkin, 2003) and, as co-editor, The Right in France from the Revolution to Le Pen (2003). D. J. B. Trim is Walter C. Utt Professor of History at Pacific Union College. His previous publications as editor and co-editor include The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism (2003), Cross, Crown and Community: Religion, Government and Culture in Early Modern England 1400–1800 (2004), Amphibious Warfare 1000–1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion (2006), and Persecution and Pluralism: Calvinists and Religious Minorities in Early-Modern Europe, 1550–1700 (2006). Klappentext Leading military historians illuminate the major developments in European warfare during a period of momentous technological! political and military change. Zusammenfassung Leading military historians illuminate the major developments in European warfare during a period of momentous technological! political and military change. The chapters provide a comprehensive overview of warfare across Europe! presenting new findings and ideas that shed light on the art of war! military revolutions! state development and European expansion. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'Then was then and now is now': an overview of change and continuity in late-medieval and early-modern warfare F. Tallett and D. J. B. Trim; 2. Warfare and the international state system Kelly DeVries; 3. War and the emergence of the State: Western Europe 1350-1600 Steven Gunn; 4. From military enterprise to standing armies: war, state and society in Western Europe, 1600-1700 David Parrott; 5. The State and military affairs in east-central Europe, 1380-c.1520s László Veszprémy; 6. Empires and warfare in east-central Europe, 1550-1750: the Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry and military transformation Gábor Àgoston; 7. Ottoman military organisation in south-eastern Europe, c.1420-1720 Rhoads Murphey; 8. The transformation of army organisation in early-modern Western Europe, c.1500-1789 Olaf van Nimwegen; 9. Aspects of operational art: communications, cannon and small war Simon Pepper; 10. Tactics and the face of battle Clifford J. Rogers; 11. Short-lived triumphs and long-term successes: naval warfare in Europe, c.1330-c.1680 Louis Sicking; 12. Legality and legitimacy in war and its conduct, 1350-1650 Matthew Bennett; 13. Conflict, religion and ideology D. J. B. Trim; 14. Warfare, entrepreneurship and the fiscal-military State Jan Glete; 15. War and State-building Ronald G. Asch....
