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Polemology --- anno 1200-1499 --- Military art and science --- Sieges --- Siege warfare --- Attack and defense (Military science) --- Fortifications, Attack and defense of --- Fortress warfare --- Siege craft --- Siegecraft --- Military engineering --- Fortification --- Intrenchments --- Military history --- Medieval warfare --- History

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Siege warfare --- Crusades --- Fortification --- Fortification, Primitive --- Forts --- Military engineering --- Attack and defense (Military science) --- Fortifications, Attack and defense of --- Fortress warfare --- Siege craft --- Siegecraft --- Military art and science --- Intrenchments --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- History

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Exploring the military, legal, social and literary aspects of ancient warfare, this study examines the multifaceted nature of the siege phenomenon in the Ancient Near East. The book is based on Akkadian and biblical (and, to lesser degree, Greek, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite and Ugaritic) sources as well as on the depictions on reliefs from Assyrian palaces and Egyptian temples. The analysis incorporates lexical study and military thinking and focuses on the technology of warfare and human behavior in a state of emergency. This volume is a co-publication between Brill and The Hebrew University Magnes Press.

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Brill’s Companion to Aineias Tacticus is a collection of articles on the significance of the earliest Greek handbook on military tactics. Aineias’ (Aeneas) wrote his Poliorketika in the mid-fourth century BC, offering a unique perspective on contemporary Greek city-states, warfare and intellectual trends. We offer an introduction to Aineias and his work, and then discuss the work’s historical and intellectual context, his qualities as a writer, and aspects of his work as a historical source for the Greek polis of the fourth century BC. Several chapters discuss Aineias’ approach to warfare, specifically light infantry, mercenaries, naval operations, fortifications and technology. Finally, we include a lengthy study of the reception of ancient military treatises, specifically Aineias’ Poliorketika, in the Byzantine period.

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"Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its regular bastions, redefined the identity of the early modern city. Military planning also generated new forms of urban spaces, such as the orderly grid, the tree-lined avenue, the great central square dominated by triumphal sculpture, and the greenbelt that provided clear boundaries and controlled viewpoints. In The city at war in early modern Europe, Martha Pollak offers a pan-European, richly illustrated study of early modern military urbanism, an international style of urban design characterized by uniformity, geometrical clarity, architectural economy, and unadorned monumentality. Pollak examines this new urbanism as visualized by engravers, painters, and cartographers in accurate plans and powerful panoramic views. Her comparative, transnational study ranges from Britain to the Ottoman Empire, and from Malta to Scandinavia, and focuses on major centers--Naples, Paris, Antwerp, Stockholm--and "fortress cities" such as Valletta and Palmanova, which are still defined by their immense, geometrically perfect fortifications"--Provided by publisher.

Environmental planning --- History of Europe --- Polemology --- anno 1500-1799 --- Cities and towns --- City and town life --- City planning --- Military planning --- Fortification --- Architecture --- Siege warfare --- War and society --- History. --- Social aspects --- Europe --- History, Military --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Attack and defense (Military science) --- Fortifications, Attack and defense of --- Fortress warfare --- Siege craft --- Siegecraft --- Military art and science --- Military engineering --- Intrenchments --- War planning --- Military administration --- Military policy --- Planning --- Fortification, Primitive --- Forts --- History --- Social aspects&delete& --- Architecture militaire --- Urbanisme --- Fortifications --- 1500-1800