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The medieval military engineer : from the Roman Empire to the sixteenth century /
"The results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork emplacements and underground mines used for war have left little trace behind them; and there is even less of...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
The Boydell Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Armour and weapons.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Military Engineers in the Middle Ages
- 2. Late Antiquity and the Early "Middle Ages": Were the "Dark Ages" Really Dark?
- 3. Anonymous but Effective: The Engineers and Technicians of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries
- 4. The Engineer Recognised
- 5. Engineers in Demand: Innovation and Development in the Thirteenth Century
- 6. Old and New Technology and its Operators in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries
- 7. Polymaths and Specialists in the Fifteenth Century.