The Renaissance Drill Book

The Renaissance Drill Book

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Jacob de Gheyn's 'Exercise of Armes' was an immense success when first published in 1607. It is a fascinating seventeenth-century military manual, designed to instruct contemporary soldiers how to handle arms effectively, and correctly, and it makes for a unique glimpse into warfare as waged in the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War. The manual uses illustrations to clearly demonstrate drills for soldiers employing calivers and muskets. It shows how to load and fire, or merely carry, a matchlock piece. In addition detailed illustrations show the various movements and postures to be adopted during use of the pike. There are 117 illustrations contained in this book and all are fine examples of seventeenth-century art. Each image is detailed and evocative and students of military history and military costume are sure to find them of immense interest. Jacob de Gheyn's manual is an important insight into how the armies of Europe operated in the field in the seventeenth century, but it is also an attractive book of considerable charm and character.

The Renaissance Drill Book,Jacob De Gheyn,Greenhill Books,185367561X,History,History - Military / War,History: World,Military - General,Renaissance,History / Military / Strategy

Books Report:

1. The Rescue of the Gale Runner: Death, Heroism, and the U.S. Coast Guard (New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology)
2. The Roman Cavalry
3. The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939
4. The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict (The Cass Series in Regional and Federal Studies)
5. The Third Battalion Mississippi Infantry and the 45th Mississippi Regiment: A Civil War History
6. The US Cavalry (Men-at-Arms)
7. The War Diaries : An Anthology of Daily Wartime Diary Entries Throughout History
8. THIN RED LINE : The Eyewitness History of the Crimean War
9. Two Minutes Over Baghdad; Revised and updated edition
10. U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy (New Vanguard)

Books Report

Recommended Books

1. The basic illustrated color darkroom book
2. Hedge Funds: Myths and Limits
3. How to Sing
4. Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies : Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
5. Drafting Legislation and Rules in Plain English
6. Dinosaurs : The Textbook
7. Evolutionary Computation : Toward a New Philosophy of Machine Intelligence
8. Happy Death
9. Hand of Fire : Shandril's Saga, Book III
10. Cooking with Spices for Dummies
11. Creative Faces : Make Your Own Makeup
12. Family Rules : Raising Responsible Children: 2005 Edition
13. Ernest Jones, Chartism, and the Romance of Politics 1819-1869
14. Deer: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan
15. Fodor's Venice and the Venetian Arc, 4th Edition