Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660

by Duffy,Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780415146494
• ISBN10: 0415146496
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781136607868
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-01-15
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

InSiege Warfare,Christopher Duffy sets the fortress at the center of history between 1494-1660, the time when gunpowder changed the shape of warfare. He explains and clarifies the elaborate calculations which lie behind fortress construction, showing how the period was shaped, in both its town planning and urban life, by the art of fortress building. The narrative begins in Renaissance Italy, considers the engineering of the Dutch and Spanish during the Eighty Years War, and covers the state-of-the-art in Britain, Scandinavia, Muscovy and Turkey. Duffy demonstrates the implications of the fortress for military organization, strategy, geography, law, architectural values, town life and symbolism, making it the first integrated survey of the phenomenon of siege warfare during its most creative period.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Prologue: The Earliest Artillery Fortification	1	(7)
Fortress Warfare in Renaissance Italy	8	(15)
Later Italian Wars and the Origins of Permanent Artillery Fortification 1530--1600	23	(20)
The Frontiers of France 1513--59	43	(15)
The Eighty Years War in the Netherlands 1566--1648	58	(48)
The Apprenticeship of France 1560--1660	106	(34)
The English Civil War and the Subjugation of Ireland	140	(23)
The Baltic Empires	163	(28)
The Sultan and his Enemies	191	(29)
Fortress Warfare beyond the Seas	220	(27)
The Fortress and Humankind	247	(18)
Bibliography	265	(12)
General Index	277	(11)
Subject Index	288