renaissance warfare

BELOW Tapestry depicting the Battle of Pavia in northern Italy in 1525. On the left, German Landsknechts clash with Swiss pikemen. On the right, a formidable field fortification bristles with cannon.

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Renaissance warfare: a military revolution

Neil Faulkner analyses the changing nature of warfare in early 16th-century Europe.

OPPOSITE This depiction of the Battle of Pavia in 1525 gives a sense of what the fighting at Bicocca three years earlier was like. Note the close terrain, the dense formations, and the combination of horse and foot, pike and shot, and entrenched cannon.

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The Battle of Bicocca, 27 April 1522

Neil Faulkner analyses a typical battle of the Italian Wars, a clash between a French and an Imperialist army near the northern Italian city of Milan, fought 500 years ago this spring.

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War Classics: History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century

What is immediately striking reading Oman is the depth of his scholarship... These are works of exceptional length and detail.