Rowing for War: The Age of the Galley

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In the 14th and 15th centuries, one technical innovation changed European naval warfare drastically: equipping ships with heavy artillery. Contrary to popular belief, at first, not the ships of the line that would later rule the seas with imposing broadsides but rowing ships, especially galleys were the most important element of naval warfare. For almost two centuries, the galley with cannons on the bow gave ships and fortresses the shivers and conquered not only the Mediterranean, but also the North and Baltic Seas and the nearby Atlantic Ocean. In this video we investigate how the galley equipped with artillery dominated naval warfare in Europe.

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Reading list:
Warfare:
Duffy, C., Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, Vol. 1, 1979. https://amzn.to/32dvvwM
Devries, K., Douglas, R., Medieval Military Technology, 1992, https://amzn.to/3IazYoC.
Rogers, C.J., The military revolution debate. Readings on the military transformation of early modern Europe, 1995. https://amzn.to/3geVDMM
Rogers, C.J., Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages, 2006. https://amzn.to/3j2kQvG
Parker, C., The Cambridge History of Warfare, 2005. https://amzn.to/32ggn1L
Van Nimwegen, O., The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, 2010. https://amzn.to/2E3Fc95

Fiction related to the Early modern period:
Alexandre Dumas,The Three Musketeers https://amzn.to/2CJVAuu
Alexandre Dumas, 20 Years After https://amzn.to/32g82Lv
Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne https://amzn.to/2EnIOCB
Markus Heitz, The Dark Lands https://amzn.to/3ntZgEu

Military Si-Fi recommendations:
Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe (Series of 22 books on the Napoleonic Wars), https://amzn.to/3RZyty0
Dan Abnett, The Founding: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) https://amzn.to/3vdGxkZ
Dan Abnett, The Lost: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) https://amzn.to/3osvFvA
Dan Abnett, The Saint A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) https://amzn.to/3orikUk
Glen Cook, Chronicles of the Black Company (Chronicles of the Black Company Series Book 1) https://amzn.to/3PVgyGV

Historiography:
Neville Morley, Writing Ancient History 1999. https://amzn.to/3NCyoNl
Albeit focused on ancient history, it's a brilliant book for anybody who is interested in what history actually is. Is it a story? How does it work in practise? Can writing history be objective? Is it "scientific"? What makes it a proper discipline at university?