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Maryland'deki Loyola Koleji'nde tarih profesörüdür. Aralarında Medieval Military Technology, Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century, Joan of Arc: A Military Leader ve Guns and Men in Medieval Europe'un da olduğu pek çok kitabın yazarıdır.
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Amerikalı Akademisyen, Tarihçi, Yazar
Doğum:
23 Aralık 1956
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Antiquity imagined the Centaur; the early Middle Ages made him the master of Europe.
On 18 October 1371, the duchess of Burgundy ordered armor made for six of her dogs. However, what this armor might have been, if it was ever made, or whether it was to be used in a military enterprise or only for parade, cannot be determined by this single reference.
By the flash and combustion of fires, and by the horror of sounds, wonders can be wrought, and at any distance that we wish–so that a man can hardly protect himself or endure it.
The first documentary evidence for the sinking of a ship by another ship is in 1499 during the Battle of Zonchio, when an Ottoman ship sank a Venetian one by gunfire, but this may have been an isolated case and was not the usual naval tactic at the time.
As armor developed, and more and more of a warrior became covered, the use of heraldic devices as a means of identification gained in popularity.
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