Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), born prince of Fergana in Transoxiana (modern Uzbekistan and Tajikistan), was scion of the dynasty of Tamerlane, which ruled throughout eastern Iran and Central Asia. By the age of twelve, Babur had become the ruler of Samarkand, but would then lose it amidst the various conflicts …
The Journal of Socho (Socho shuki) was compiled from 1522 to 1527 by Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532), one of Japan’s preeminent poets of that period. He served as poet laureate of the Imagawa daimyo house in his later years, and this account is at times a travel diary, a historical chronicle, …
Keith Durham Border Reiver 1513-1603 Warrior 154. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2011. 64pp. $ 18.95/ 3 11.99/ CAN $ 22.00. ISBN 978-1-84908-193-1. From the end of the 13th century until the ascension to the English throne of James VI of Scotland in 1603 the Anglo-Scottish Borderland was a battleground for both …
Christopher Gravett Tudor Knight Warrior 104. Oxford: Osprey Publishing 2006. 64pp. £ 11.99. ISBN 1-84176-970-3. Not always blessed with good leaders and hampered by corruption at all levels, the armies of Tudor England still had mounted knights as their main shock troops. Chivalry was still alive, with tournaments held before …
Steven Ashton Walton The Art of Gunnery in Renaissance England Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1999 Abstract Previous histories of artillery have concentrated on the guns themselves and their use in military actions, whereas this dissertation attempts to understand those guns as the core of a technological system in late Tudor England and …