Oblicza Wojny. Tom 7. Przed bitwą

0577986 - MÚA 2024 RIV PL eng M - Monography Chapter
Andresová, Klára
Central European Infantry Handbooks in the Time of Early Modern Military Revolution.
Oblicza Wojny. Tom 7. Przed bitwą. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023 - (Grabarzcyk, T.; Pogońska-Pol, M.), s. 195-211. ISBN 978-83-8331-303-0
Institutional support: RVO:67985921
Keywords : Central Europe * military handbooks * book history
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The transformations of early modern warfare were reflected by a specific genre of period learned literature – military handbooks. In the period of 1550–1650, approximately 125 military handbooks were printed in Central Europe in ca. 225 editions. Twenty-five of these books were concerned specifically with the art of infantry war. While researching changes of the content and formal aspects of these military publications, it is possible to trace changes of period military theory. The prosopography of military theorists and book publishers helps to reveal how the new ideas were disseminated – in this case how the new approaches to infantry training and the art of war spread from Western and Northern Europe to its centre. The aim of this contribution is not only to describe period infantry handbooks, but also to characterise the transfer of revolutionary changes in infantry warfare from Netherlands and Sweden into Central Europe with the help of period military manuals.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0347044