Military Handbooks from Early Modern Periodas the Research Subject of Military History and Book History : Prints of the East-Central Europe in the Context of European Production
Abstract
The article deals with the genre of military handbooks, mainly focusing on thehandbooks from the East-Central Europe from 1550-1650. As yet, the genre inquestion has not been paid much research attention in the military historiography.Therefore, the text fi rst provides characteristics of the relevant segment of educationalliterature, subsequently listing the most signifi cant publications dealing with this topicin recent years.
The military handbooks of early modern times are characterised notonly in terms of their content but also based on their form. In the Central Europe,some facts related to the genre in question in both the Western part of the region arecompared.
The fi nal part of the paper focuses on the East-Central Europe and themilitary handbooks connected to the region in terms of printing origin.