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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Preface xi
6. Abbreviations xiv
7. 1 Military Engineers in the Middle Ages 1
8. 2 Late Antiquity and the Early “Middle Ages”: Were the “Dark Ages” Really Dark? 20
9. 3 Anonymous but Effective: The Engineers and Technicians of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries 76
10. 4 The Engineer Recognised 107
11. 5 Engineers in Demand: Innovation and Development in the Thirteenth Century 151
12. 6 Old and New Technology and its Operators in the Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries 202
13. 7 Polymaths and Specialists in the Fifteenth Century 234
14. Postscript: from Medieval to (Early) Modern in the Sixteenth Century 274
15. Appendix: Military Engineers and Miners in the Pipe Rolls of the English Exchequer 280
16. Glossary 285
17. Bibliography of Primary Sources 289
18. Bibliography of Secondary Sources 304
19. Index 337