A Bestseller Among Artillery Handbooks of the 16th Century
Printed Editions of the Late Medieval Feuerwerkbuch
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One of the important artillery manuals of the 15th century is the Feuerwerkbuch. The treatise was one of the first European didactic technical texts, intended for both artillerymen and their employers. After circulating in manuscript copies for over a hundred years, the text was first printed in 1529. By 1619 it had been published thirteen times in total, making it exceptional among military manuals published in Central Europe at that time. The content of the work has been studied by various medievalists and codicologists to date, but they were not usually concerned with later transformations of the publication. The aim of this paper is to characterise the changes in this work between the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War and to trace its publication history and its publication relationship to other educational texts.
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A Bestseller Among Artillery Handbooks of the 16th Century
Printed Editions of the Late Medieval Feuerwerkbuch
In: International Journal of Military History and HistoriographySearch for other papers by Klára Andresová in
Current site
Google Scholar
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Abstract
One of the important artillery manuals of the 15th century is the Feuerwerkbuch. The treatise was one of the first European didactic technical texts, intended for both artillerymen and their employers. After circulating in manuscript copies for over a hundred years, the text was first printed in 1529. By 1619 it had been published thirteen times in total, making it exceptional among military manuals published in Central Europe at that time. The content of the work has been studied by various medievalists and codicologists to date, but they were not usually concerned with later transformations of the publication. The aim of this paper is to characterise the changes in this work between the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War and to trace its publication history and its publication relationship to other educational texts.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 409 | 119 | 5 |
| Full Text Views | 90 | 7 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 240 | 61 | 3 |