Devils from Hell: Gunpowder Weaponry During the Hundred Years War

这一专业发展奖学金允许技术历史学家从英国皇家军械保护负责人罗伯特·D·史密斯那里获得早期火药武器设计和技术方面的实践培训。皇家兵工厂不仅提供了权威的文物收藏，还提供了广泛的库、最先进的无损分析工具和专家团队。在这一背景下，和平协会将了解武器本身，并将开展一项研究项目，探讨这类武器在百年战争中的作用，以及更广泛地说，关于十四世纪和十五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.