Les artilleurs et la monarchie hispanique (1560-1610): Guerres, savoirs techniques, Etat Artillerymen and the Hispanic monarchy (1560-1610): Wars, technical knowledge, and the State

摘要

While artillery is seen as a technique with major consequences-key to the military revolution, the rise of the Modern State, and the European overseas expansion-the very nature of this technical change, its chronology, and its components still largely remain to be established (even after the pioneering works of B. S. Hall, Ph. Contamine, or B. Buchanan). Historiographic cathedrals are erected on sand. Hence the major interest of Brice Cossart's book, based on a thesis defended in 2016, which undertakes to answer the question of the mode of training and the nature of the knowledge of the artillerymen of the Hispanic monarchy in the second half of the sixteenth century. Such a formulation of the question doesn't restrict its ambition. Apart from the scale of the archival examinations that support it, the book is placed at the meeting point of important historiographical fields, which the author not only knows well but to which he makes significant contributions.