10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLIORCETIC»
Discover the use of
poliorcetic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
poliorcetic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Picturing Machines 1400-1700
polimetro, 156 poliorcetic treatises, see treatises, poliorcetic positional gravity,
167 practitioners booklets, see books, practitioners privileges for inventions, 24,
28, 301 profile, see elevation projection, 175-208, 209-44, 245-75 axonometric, ...
2
Judas Maccabaeus: The Jewish Struggle Against the Seleucids
In siege operations the artillery pieces were aided by poliorcetic structures, that is
, siege towers (helepoleis) . The towers were designed to facilitate artillery fire
into a city from a close, well-protected position, to provide archers with an
elevated ...
3
A Greek City of the Fourth Century B.C.
The assumed presence of towers 18 and 19 on this curtain is based on scanty
archaeological evidence, but the poliorcetic clues can be described as
suggestive. The curtain between these two hypothesized towers could not have
been ...
4
Warfare in Tenth-century Germany
Schneider held that these early medieval polities were simply too primitive to
maintain a poliorcetic element in their armed forces. The weight of scholarly
opinion has sided overwhelmingly with Köhler's view that artillery continued in
use, ...
David Stewart Bachrach, 2012
5
Ancient Greece and Rome
Works in the poliorcetic tradition could also resemble science fiction. The first
Christian military writer, Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 180–c. 250), drew on Greek
medical and veterinary writings in his Kestoi (Charmed Girdles) when he advised
...
6
Master Builders of Byzantium
Surviving poliorcetic texts provide two different types of images for such towers: a
schematic diagram, typical of the classical period (fig. 53), and the illustration of a
finished device, more characteristically Byzantine (fig. 54) — the latter was ...
Robert G. Ousterhout, 2008
7
Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, ...
We owe the existence of many of these poliorcetic texts, this one probably among
them, to the practical and antiquarian interests of the Italian Renaissance
tacticians and humanists who kept alive a tradition they received from Byzantium.
8
Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor ...
7.1.3 ConquestAppropriation: The Huns underAttila As we have seen, the Huns
had a formidable poliorcetic ability after 442. If we base our argument on the
fragmentary sources analyzed in chapter 1.1.3, the conclusion must be that the
Huns ...
Leif Inge Ree Petersen, 2013
He thus had access to a manuscript of the poliorcetic corpus that, as Dain has
shown, was from the branch of the tradition now most closely preserved in a
fragmentary state in the six- 10 Schneider (85) suggested a possible connection
with ...
Denis F. Sullivan, Heron (of Byzantium.), 2000
10
Arms & Armour in Spain: A Short Survey
here give an numeration of several kinds of poliorcetic engines, and let us
understand that the term <<engefios» comprises almost all kinds of large
poliorcetic engines: from stone-throwers, movable towers armed with artillery,
crossbows and ...
Ada Bruhn de Hoffmeyer, M.A., D.PH.
