This classic text is the first integrated survey of the phenomenon of siege warfare during its most creative period. Duffy demonstrates the implications of the fortress for questions of military organization, strategy, geography, law, architectural values, town life and symbolism and imagination. The book is well illustrated, and will be a valuable companion for enthusiasts of military and architectural history, as well as the general medievalist.
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Siege Warfare represents a valuable resource in the library of anyone interested in the contours of early modern warfare. The full meaning of developments in siege warfare remains still to be worked out by historians, but we can be confident that, when they do, they will use the materials so ably assembled by Christopher Duffy.
–Sixteenth Century Journal
–Sixteenth Century Journal
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Christopher Duffy is former Senior Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, Sandhurst.
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This review is from: Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
This is an excellent work that covers a vast topic well. In addition to technical developments in military engineering and the weapons driving it, this book gives a good overview of the social, economic, and political climate under which this occurs.
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Hard going for the non-expert,
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This review is from: Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
Siege warfare is a comprehensive and well presented study of warfare in the period considered. But it is perhaps not very accessible for the non-expert. The politics and history of this period is fairly complicated, and if you don't have a grasp of it (as I don't) you will find that you can't follow the text very easily.
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Charles VIII and the advent of mobile siege artillery In military affairs, the events of 1494 did much to bring the Middle Ages to an end. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strategic redoubt, fortress warfare, vain siege, reinforced castle, outer enceinte, siege approaches, artillery fortification, formal siege, siege army, wet ditch, permanent fortification, river barrier, foreign engineers, military engineering, siege works Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frederick Henry, Eighty Years War, Maurice of Nassau, Duke of Savoy, Spanish Netherlands, Thirty Years War, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Black Sea, English Civil War, Grand Vizier, Duke of Guise, Prince Maurice, Prince of Orange, Prince Rupert, Archduke Albert, Don Fadrique, Gian Girolamo, Indian Ocean, King Philip, Old Harbour, Renaissance Italy, States General, Basing House, Del Aguila, Don John of Austria New!
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Charles VIII and the advent of mobile siege artillery In military affairs, the events of 1494 did much to bring the Middle Ages to an end. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
strategic redoubt, fortress warfare, vain siege, reinforced castle, outer enceinte, siege approaches, artillery fortification, formal siege, siege army, wet ditch, permanent fortification, river barrier, foreign engineers, military engineering, siege works Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frederick Henry, Eighty Years War, Maurice of Nassau, Duke of Savoy, Spanish Netherlands, Thirty Years War, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Black Sea, English Civil War, Grand Vizier, Duke of Guise, Prince Maurice, Prince of Orange, Prince Rupert, Archduke Albert, Don Fadrique, Gian Girolamo, Indian Ocean, King Philip, Old Harbour, Renaissance Italy, States General, Basing House, Del Aguila, Don John of Austria New!
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