Contents

pp.：  7 – 8

Abbreviations

pp.：  9 – 10

Note on Dates

pp.：  11 – 12

Illustrations

pp.：  13 – 16

Acknowledgements

pp.：  17 – 20

Introduction

pp.：  21 – 38

Chapter One "Caesar to this Present day of King James": Military Books and Military Culture, 1572–1603

pp.：  39 – 92

Matriculating in the Schoole of Warre: English Entry into the Low Countries War

pp.：  43 – 50

Warfare Abroad and Reform at Home

pp.：  51 – 55

Books, Learning, and Military Culture

pp.：  56 – 65

Procuring Foreign Military Books

pp.：  66 – 70

England's Worthies: Military Circles and Military Books in Late Elizabethan England

pp.：  71 – 92

Chapter Two "Companions of Martiall Noblenesse": Military Circles and Books in Early Stuart England

pp.：  93 – 154

The English Military Experience: 1603–1629

pp.：  95 – 112

Early Stuart Military Circles: The Veres

pp.：  113 – 124

The Military Court of Henry, Prince of Wales

pp.：  125 – 145

Caroline Military Circles

pp.：  146 – 154

Chapter Three "Practice put in Press": The Evolution of the English Drill Manual

pp.：  155 – 214

The Evolution of the Early Stuart Drill Manual: The Dutch Infl uence

pp.：  157 – 175

The Honourable Artillery Company: The Incubator of English Military Practice

pp.：  176 – 186

The Impact of the Instructions For Musters and Armes of 1623

pp.：  187 – 196

The Drill Manual in the Personal Rule Period

pp.：  197 – 204

Drill Manuals in the First Years of the English Civil War

pp.：  205 – 214

Chapter Four "A few men rightly instructed to manage Armes": The Analytical Treatise and Infantry Warfare

pp.：  215 – 280

Soldier-Authors and their Patrons: The Veterans

pp.：  216 – 235

Soldier-Authors and their Patrons: The Amateurs

pp.：  236 – 249

English Translations of Foreign Analytical Treatises

pp.：  250 – 262

Preparation and Action: Infantry Tactics

pp.：  263 – 268

The Five Vowels

pp.：  269 – 273

Habiliments & Necessaries of War

pp.：  274 – 280

Chapter Five "There is Great Need for Reformation": Military Books and Mounted Warfare

pp.：  281 – 332

Late Elizabethan Theories on Mounted Warfare

pp.：  283 – 289

Warfare and Horsemanship Treatises

pp.：  290 – 299

Jacobean Military Books on Cavalry

pp.：  300 – 310

John Cruso's Militarie Instructions for the Cavallrie and Caroline Books on Cavalry

pp.：  311 – 322

Cavalry Manuals in the English Civil War

pp.：  323 – 332

Chapter Six "Necessary Bulwarks": Siegecraft Treatises in Early Stuart England

pp.：  333 – 390

Soldiers, Military Architects and Mathematicians

pp.：  336 – 341

Siegecraft and the Mathematical Renaissance

pp.：  342 – 345

An English School of Military Architecture, 1560–1600?

pp.：  346 – 348

Siege Literature: Ostend to Breda

pp.：  349 – 355

Analytical Treatises and Specialized Literature on Siegecraft, 1630–1642

pp.：  356 – 364

The Elements of a Siege

pp.：  365 – 380

Necessary Bulwarks: The Theory and Practice of Siegecraft in the Civil War

pp.：  381 – 390

Conclusion

pp.：  391 – 394

Appendix Military Books Printed in English, 1603–1645

pp.：  395 – 412

Selected Bibliography

pp.：  413 – 436

Index

pp.：  437 – 464