MILITARY REVOLUTION IN 16TH CENTURY EUROPE, THE

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Represents a twist in the already complicated debate on military change in the early modern period. Eltis suggests that key developments in training, organization, tactics, and siege warfare occurred in the 16th century and, taken together, these innovations constitute a military revolution, changing the face of war. In England, these changes came later than in the rest of Europe and in Ireland, later still. English writers, in their anxiety to spur their countrymen to adopt the new methods, produced some of the most useful manuals of 16th-century Europe. These, together with Italian, Spanish, French and German texts form the main basis of this study.