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Welcome to the Early Modern warfare task force of the Military history WikiProject!

Contents 1 Scope 2 Participants 3 Tagging and assessment 4 Templates 5 Categories 6 To-do 7 Resources 7.1 Annotated bibliography 7.1.1 Italian Wars 7.2 Related projects 7.3 External links

[edit] Scope

This task force covers military history from c. 1500 to c. 1792. Although this choice of dates is particularly oriented towards European history, other areas are also welcome.

Topics before this range are under the purview of the Medieval warfare task force, while topics immediately after it are covered by the Napoleonic Era task force.

[edit] Participants

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.

1. Aryaman13 (talk • contribs) (Eighty Years War, English civil war, Thirty Years War, Military Revolution)
2. Carom (talk • contribs) (English civil war)
3. Dryzen (talk • contribs) (Primarily France and New-France, including the participants of the Seven Years War)
4. ed4linda (talk • contribs) (Japan's invasions of Korea 1592-8, China's response, weaponry, tactics & naval technologies)
5. Kirill Lokshin (talk • contribs) (primarily the Italian Wars, but interested in everything)
6. Kyriakos (talk • contribs) (the Balkans)
7. Larry Dunn (talk • contribs) (the Italian Wars, the French Wars of Religion, the Turkish wars, Thirty Years War, the Swiss mercenaries and Landsknecht mercenaries, weapons technology, etc.)
8. Lysandros (talk • contribs) (Battles of the Ottoman Empire)
9. LordAmeth (talk • contribs) (Ages of Exploration and Discovery, European-EastAsian contacts)
10. Neddyseagoon (talk • contribs) (English Civil War; Henry VIII of England - Device Forts, The Tudors and the Royal Navy, etc; 18th century naval warfare)
11. Xiliquiern (talk • contribs) (associated weaponry, armour, tactics and martial arts)

[edit] Tagging and assessment

Early Modern warfare task force assessment statistics Early Modern warfare articles Importance None Total Quality FA 12 12 A GA 8 8 B 45 45 Start 164 164 Stub 131 131 Assessed 360 360 Unassessed 0 0 Total 360 360 worklist • log • category

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Early-Modern-task-force=yes to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Early Modern warfare task force articles.

[edit] Templates

• For main project templates, see the main project page.
• Userbox: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Outreach/User WPMILHIST Early Modern warfare task force}}

[edit] Categories

• Category:Warfare of the Early Modern era
  • Category:Italian Wars
  • Category:Thirty Years' War
  • Category:English Civil War
  • Category:Battles of the Early Modern era
    • Category:Naval battles of the Early Modern era
    • Category:Battles of the Italian Wars
  • Category:Military units and formations of the Early Modern era
    • Category:Military units and formations of the Italian Wars

[edit] To-do

• Tag articles!
• Add things here!

[edit] Resources

[edit] Annotated bibliography

Please use the following format when adding works:

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[edit] Italian Wars

Primary sources

• Giovio, Paolo. ‘’Le vite del Gran Capitano e del Marchese di Pescara’’ Bari 1931.
  • Content:
    • Lives of those two important leaders of the period.
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • In Italian, I don´t know an English translation Aryaman13

• Guicciardini, Francesco. The History of Italy. Translated by Sydney Alexander. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-691-00800-0.
  • Content:
    • Narrative of the period up to c. 1530.
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • The Alexander translation is abridged in many parts; in particular, many of the battle accounts have been trimmed into summaries by the editor. There hasn't been a full English translation published for a century or more. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

General secondary sources

• Arfaioli, Maurizio. The Black Bands of Giovanni: Infantry and Diplomacy During the Italian Wars (1526–1528). Pisa: Pisa University Press, Edizioni Plus, 2005. ISBN 88-8492-231-3.
  • Content:
    • History of the Black Bands; Naples campaign of 1527–28.
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • Perhaps the only work in English that covers these topics in any level of detail. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Arnold, Thomas F. The Renaissance at War. Smithsonian History of Warfare, edited by John Keegan. New York: Smithsonian Books / Collins, 2006. ISBN 0-06-089195-5.
  • Content:
    • General overview of the period; historiographical evaluation of other available works.
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • Good battle diagrams; mostly useful as a reflection of very recent historiography. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Black, Jeremy. "Dynasty Forged by Fire." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 18, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 34–43. ISSN 1040-5992.
  • Content:
    • General overview of the period; reconstruction of the Battle of Pavia.
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • Nice, but quite short. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Black, Jeremy. European Warfare, 1494–1660. Warfare and History, edited by Jeremy Black. London: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-27532-6.
  • Content:
    • General overview of the period.
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • More detailed narratives than Arnold; good source for modern assessments. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Hall, Bert S. Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8018-5531-4.
  • Content:
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • Some fairly detailed narratives; extensive bibliography. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Konstam, Angus. Pavia 1525: The Climax of the Italian Wars. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1996. ISBN 1-85532-504-7.
  • Content:
    • Reconstruction of the Battle of Pavia and the surrounding campaigns.
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • More recent reconstruction than Oman's, and shows a number of major differences. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice. New York: Vintage Books, 1989. ISBN 0-679-72197-5.
  • Content:
    • Venetian involvement in the Italian Wars, 1494–1529.
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • Very well-written, but takes a decidedly Venetian perspective to the events. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Oman, Charles. A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century. London: Methuen & Co., 1937.
  • Content:
    • Detailed overview of the period.
  • Reviews:
    • "The best general introduction to the armies and campaigns of the Renaissance period.... These reconstructions [of battles] were carefully worked out from multiple sources, and so often remain excellent short studies of each event – but Oman's connections between warfare, politics, and society have dated less well." (Arnold, Renaissance at War, 227)
  • Editor comments:
    • Invaluable; one of the only sources of detailed battle reconstructions. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Taylor, Frederick Lewis. The Art of War in Italy, 1494–1529. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. First published 1921 by Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-8371-5025-6.
  • Content:
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • Old, but quite detailed; covers material thematically rather than chronologically. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Biographical sources

• Baumgartner, Frederic J. Louis XII. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. ISBN 0-312-12072-9.
  • Content:
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • Good source for high-level narrative. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Blockmans, Wim. Emperor Charles V, 1500–1558. Translated by Isola van den Hoven-Vardon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-340-73110-9.
  • Content:
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • Brief overviews of the wars. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Hackett, Francis. Francis the First. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937.
  • Content:
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • Not written by a professional historian, apparently; but seems to mostly match up with more scholarly works. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Knecht, Robert J. Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-57885-X.
  • Content:
  • Reviews:
  • Editor comments:
    • More scholarly thank Hackett. Kirill Lokshin 18:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Related projects

• Castles

[edit] External links

• List of primary sources for the Italian Wars