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Ships and Guns : The Sea Ordnance in Venice and in Europe between the 15th and the 17th Centuries, Paperback / softback Book

Ships and Guns : The Sea Ordnance in Venice and in Europe between the 15th and the 17th Centuries Paperback / softback

Edited by Carlo Beltrame, Renato Gianni Ridella

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Ships and Guns brings together experts from the field of historic artillery and underwater archaeologists to present a series of papers which focus on the development of naval ordnance in Europe and, especially, Venice, in the 15th17th centuries, as exemplified by the maritime archaeological resource.

Subjects include Venetian ordnance in shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the race to develop big calibres in the first war of Morea, Genoese ordnance aboard galleys in the 16th century, the strategic logistics of guns at sea during the Spanish armada of 1588 and ships and guns of the Tudor navy. Often specialists in ordnance study artefacts recovered from wrecks without a complete knowledge of the archaeological context from which they have been recovered.

Archaeologists investigating the context of the objects on the other hand, often do so with only a superficial knowledge of historic artillery.

This volume hopes to redress the balance, and also to present a large amount of information, often concerning little-known wrecks, on this important but under-published subject area.

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