The Medieval Military Engineer – From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century

The Medieval Military EngineerFrom the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century\nAuthor(s): Peter Purton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781783272785, 978-1783272785\nSynopsis\nSheds light on the skills and techniques of the medieval military engineer, over a thousand year sweep.\n\nThe results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork emplacements and underground mines used for war have left little trace behind them; and there is even less of the engineers themselves: the people behind the military engineering achievements. The evidence for this neglected group is studied here. \n The author begins byconsidering the evolution of military technology across centuries, and the impact of new technologies in the context of the economic and social developments which made them possible. .