Description: This explosive volume explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the 13th century, when it was first imported from China, to the 16th century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war.
Brief description: Bert S. Hall is associate professor at the University of Toronto's Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and co-editor of Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture.
Review Quotes: Hall has long been recognized as a leading authority on early modern military technology. Scholars of the period and historians in general will find this the best treatment to date of the impact of gunpowder on Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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