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A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500 (Hardcover, New)
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A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500 (Hardcover, New)
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Detailed survey of the continued development of the siege in the
later middle ages, showing the effects of new technology and
armaments. The siege dominated warfare during the medieval period.
Contemporary evidence - from both accounts of sieges, and records
of government - survives in relatively large quantites for the
later medieval period; together with archaeological evidence, it is
used here to offer a full and comprehensive picture of siege
warfare. The book shows how similar methods were practised
everywhere, with knowledge of new technologies spreading quickly,
and experts selling their skills to any willing employer: it also
looks at how the erection of defences capable of withstanding
increasingly sophisticated attack became an expensive proposition.
The question of whether some of the immense surviving monuments of
this age really had a military function at all is also addressed.
The book begins with the Mongol conquests in Asia and Europe and
the thirteenth-century apogee of pre-gunpowder siege warfare,
before examining theslow impact of guns and the cumulatively
massive changes in attack and defence of the fifteenth century. The
companion volume, A History of the Early Medieval Siege, covers the
period from around 450 until 1200.
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