A history of the evolution of military technology among knights in Renaissance Europe from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century.
The Art of Renaissance Warfare tells the story of the knight during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuriesfrom the great victories of Edward III and the Black Prince to the fall of Richard III on Bosworth Field.
This was the great age of the orders of chivalry and the freemasonry of arms that bound together comrades and adversaries in a tight international military caste. Men such as Bertrand du Guesclin and Sir John Chandos loom large in the pages of this bookbold leaders and brave warriors, imbued with these traditions of chivalry and knighthood. How their heroic endeavors and the knightly code of conduct could be reconciled with the indiscriminate carnage of the "chevauchee" and the depredations of the "free companies" is one of the principal themes of this informative and entertaining book.