Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	333
Title	Origins of Firepower
Date/Time	Monday 1 July 2013: 16.30-18.00
Organiser	Steven A. Walton, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University
Moderator/Chair	Kelly DeVries, Department of History, Loyola University Maryland / US Air Force Academy, Colorado
Paper 333-a	Charles the Bold's Great Artillery Programme of 1469 (Language: English) Emmanuel de Crouy-Chanel, UFR de Droit et de Science politique, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, Amiens / Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR - UMR 7323), Tours Index Terms: Military History; Technology
Paper 333-b	Artillery on the Medieval Battlefield (Language: English) Glenn Foard, Department of English, Linguistics & History, University of Huddersfield Index Terms: Military History; Technology
Paper 333-c	The Goldilocks Problem in Medieval Ordnance: The Early European Guns (EEG) Database (Language: English) Steven A. Walton, Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Military History; Technology
Abstract	The arrival of effective gunpowder weaponry in the 15th century opened up a vast array of possibilities for offense, defense, and diplomacy in military affairs. While the general advent of gunpowder is well studied, concrete details about the ordnance and gunpowder, as well as organization, itself is not as well understood. Here we look to develop a closer study of these topics through the diligent study of the material and documentary remains of gunpowder in its second century of use, but first century of widespread adoption and development.