Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 108
tion of gunpowder, or rather till that of artillery (Fig 57)the whole art of fortification, says the learned Prosper Merimee, consisted infollowing more or less exactly the traditions handed down by the Romans.The stronghold of the Middle Ages had precisely the same characteristic asthe ancient… … Fig. 57.—Mortars on Movable Carriages.—From an Engraving in the Kriegsbuch ofFronsperger: in folio, Frankfort, 1575. battering-rams of the besiegers. The employment of machines or enginesof this description was much less frequent after than before the fall of theRoman empire, when the art of war…
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