Devils from Hell: Gunpowder Weaponry During the Hundred Years War

这项专业发展奖学金允许技术历史学家从英国皇家军械库保护负责人罗伯特·d·史密斯那里获得关于早期火药武器设计和技术的实践培训。皇家军械库不仅提供了一个确定的文物收藏，它还提供了一个广泛的图书馆，最先进的非破坏性分析工具，和一个专家的工作人员。在这种情况下，PI将了解武器本身，并将开展一个研究项目，研究这些武器在百年战争中的作用，更广泛地说，研究14世纪和15世纪西欧火药武器的起源、发展和影响。

This Professional Development Fellowship allows an historian of technology to acquire hands-on training in the design and technology of early gunpowder weaponry from Robert D. Smith, Head of Conservation of the Royal Armouries in the United Kingdom. The Royal Armouries offers not only a definitive collection of artifacts, it also offers an extensive library, state-of-the-art tools for non-destructive analysis, and an expert staff. In this setting the PI will learn about the weapons themselves and will also conduct a research project on the role of such weapons in the Hundred Years War and, more generally, on the origins, development and impact of western European gunpowder weapons during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.