Central European Infantry Handbooks in the Time of Early Modern Military Revolution

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Central European Infantry Handbooks in the Time of Early Modern Military Revolution

Original language description

The theory of early modern military revolution, which was presented by Michael Roberts in the 1950s and was later revised by various historians, is well known and still in use even today. One of the pillars of supposed revolution was a change of infantry training and a general change of infantry tactics, which first happened in the Netherlands in the 1590s. Another modification of infantry training and tactics took place in Sweden during the reign of Gustavus Adolphus. These transformations were reflected by a specific genre of period learned literature – military handbooks for infantry. Military manuals were published not only in Western but also in Central Europe, mostly in Germany. In the period of 1550–1650, 125 military handbooks were printed in 227 editions there. Twenty-four of these books were concerned exclusively with the infantry warfare, another four dealt with both infantry and one of the other branches of the contemporary army. Book history is a transdisciplinary field which offers new methods of studying military history. While researching changes of the content and formal aspects of military publications, it is possible to trace changes of period military theory. The prosopography of military theorists and book publishers helps to reveal how the new ideas were disseminated – in this case how the new approaches to infantry training and the art of war spread from Western and Northern Europe to its centre. The aim of this chapter is not only to describe period infantry handbooks, but also to characterise the transfer of revolutionary changes in infantry warfare from Netherlands and Sweden into Central Europe with the help of period military manuals – especially those intended for infantry.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Infantry: A Global History

ISBN

9791298507777

Number of pages of the result

22

Pages from-to

307-328

Number of pages of the book

530

Publisher name

Società Italiana di Storia Militare

Place of publication

Roma

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