European Warfare, 1350-1750

by Edited by Frank Tallett , D. J. B. Trim

• ISBN13: 9780521886284
• ISBN10: 0521886287
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The period 1350-1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global ascendancy of the West, and the nature of 'military revolutions' past and present. However, the military history of this period is usually written from either medieval or early-modern, and either Western or Eastern European, perspectives. These chronological and geographical limits have produced substantial confusion about how the conduct of war changed. The essays in this book provide a comprehensive overview of land and sea warfare across Europe throughout this period of momentous political, religious, technological, intellectual and military change. Written by leading experts in their fields, they not only summarise existing scholarship, but also present new findings and new ideas, shedding new light on the art of war, the rise of the state, and European expansion.

Author Biography

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 edn 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 Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Reading. 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).

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of maps	p. x
List of tables	p. xi
Notes on contributors	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Note on the text	p. xx
List of abbreviations	p. xxi
Maps	p. xxiii
'Then was then and now is now': an overview of change and continuity in late-medieval and early-modern warfare	p. 1
Warfare and the international state system	p. 27
War and the emergence of the state: western Europe, 1350-1600	p. 50
From military enterprise to standing armies: war, state, and society in western Europe, 1600-1700	p. 74
The state and military affairs in east-central Europe, 1380-c. 1520s	p. 96
Empires and warfare in east-central Europe, 1550-1750: the Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry and military transformation	p. 110
Ottoman military organisation in south-eastern Europe, c. 1420-1720	p. 135
The transformation of army organisation in early-modern western Europe, c. 1500-1789	p. 159
Aspects of operational art: communications, cannon, and small war	p. 181
Tactics and the face of battle	p. 203
Naval warfare in Europe, c. 1330-c. 1680	p. 236
Legality and legitimacy in war and its conduct, 1350-1650	p. 264
Conflict, religion, and ideology	p. 278
Warfare, entrepreneurship, and the fiscal-military state	p. 300
War and state-building	p. 322
Bibliography	p. 338
Index	p. 378
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