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Book of Abstracts http://mrp2018.wordpress.com Table of Contents Barend Noordam (F. U. Berlin; H. U. Jerusalem) – Debating the Gun: ................................3 The Reception of the Musket in Ming Military Manuals Tristan Mostert (U. Leiden) – Knowledge brokers and middlemen: how the Portuguese and other trading communities brought military ................................4 technology and know-how to Makassar in the 17th century Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt U.) – The Rise and Fall of the Fiscal State and ................................5 Guns in China Hélder Carvalhal (CIDEHUS, U. Évora) – Military recruitment, royal ................................6 redistribution, and statecraft in sixteenth-century Portugal Irene Vicente Martín (EUI, Florence) – The defense of the city of Bahia: war and the origins of Early Modern State in colonial Brazil (c.1598- ................................7 1608) Ana Lopes (Lab2PT, U. Minho; CHAM, U. N. Lisbon) – About the Military Architecture of Azemmour, Morocco: early sixteenth-century ................................8 Portuguese defences Ana Teresa de Sousa (CIDEHUS, U. Évora) – The evolution of the fortification system in Portugal and overseas: Theory and Practice ................................9 (16th-17th centuries) Lorraine White (Independent scholar) – Military engineers, the Military ..............................10 Revolution, and the defence of Portugal, 1640-1668 Miguel Dantas da Cruz (ICS, U. Lisbon) – The formation of the Portuguese martial imaginary: Between the European orthodoxy and ..............................11 the overseas experience (17th and 18th centuries) Stefano Loi (ISCTE, I. U. Lisbon) – Lippe´s reform, the feeble triumph of the Military Revolution in Portugal, and the need for a ‘brain of the ..............................12 army’ Edna Caroline (Kompas, Indonesia) – Aceh Darussalam´s Strategy ..............................13 Confronting Portuguese in Malacca Roger Lee de Jesus (CHAM, U. N. Lisbon; CHSC, U. Coimbra) – Portuguese military superiority in Asia (16th century) – a myth? The ..............................14 case of land warfare André Murteira (CHAM, U. N. Lisbon) – The Dutch-Portuguese naval ..............................15 war in Asia and the Military Revolution João Nisa (CHSC, U. Coimbra; CH, U. Lisbon) and Carlos Casillas (U. Extremadura) – The use of handguns by mounted men at the Battle of ..............................16 Guadapero (1476) Tiago Machado de Castro (CHAM, U. N. Lisbon) – On the development of 15th century artillery structures in Europe. The Portuguese case and ..............................17 its main influences Teddy Sim (NTU, Singapore) – Development of the Portuguese colonial ..............................18 military in Goa, 1780-1830´s 2 Debating the Gun: The Reception of the Musket in Ming Military Manuals Barend Noordam (F. U. Berlin; H. U. Jerusalem) Although gunpowder weaponry and the true gun had already been in use in China for some time, the arrival of Portuguese breech loading swivel guns, locally named Folangji (“Frankish gun”), and muskets started having a major impact on the Chinese battlefields once they arrived in the sixteenth century. Whether the process of technology transfer was directly via the Portuguese, or via the mediation of Japanese pirates in the sixteenth-century is not entirely clear. Nevertheless, especially the musket was accorded an important role in warfare by Chinese military professionals, as can be witnessed in the military writings of the famous anti-pirate generals Qi Jiguang (1528-1588) and Yu Dayou (1503-1579). However, other Chinese military manuals dating to the mid-to-late sixteenth century have been largely ignored in western scholarship, obscuring the wider reception history of the musket. This is a poignant lack in our understanding of the appropriation process of these weapons, especially in the light of our knowledge of simultaneous debates surrounding the uses and usefulness of these weapons as preserved in contemporary European military manuals. According to Geoffrey Parker, the assessments in European manuals ranged from gunpowder weapons being a passing fad to them invalidating all (classical) precedents against the backdrop of the rediscovery of Greek and Roman military applications. In this paper I will investigate three Chinese manuals, namely He Liangchen’s (fl. 1565) Chen ji, Tang Shunzhi’s (1507-1560) Wu bian, and the anonymous Caolu jinglüe. I will analyse whether a similar debate can be discerned in these manuals regarding the uses and usefulness of the new weapons and to what extent the transfer of the Portuguese musket had an impact on Chinese military theory and doctrine. Barend Noordam is holder of a Freie Universität Berlin/Hebrew University of Jerusalem joint post-doctoral fellowship. He is currently researching the socio-cultural and intellectual aspects of the simultaneous upsurge of military knowledge production in both Europe and China in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. A special focus will be on the role of antiquity as an exemplar and the nature of the cooperation between scholars and professional military men. Previously, Barend Noordam was part of Heidelberg University’s cluster “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” and Leiden University’s “Eurasian Empires” program. As member of the latter he wrote his dissertation on the Chinese military commander Qi Jiguang (1528-1588) and the role his engagement with Neo-Confucianism played in his social network of civil officials and scholars, and how this engagement impacted his access to military knowledge and the contents of his own military manuals. Research interests include global (military) history, cultural transfer, knowledge circulation, intellectual history, cross-cultural perceptions, the cultural history of science and technology, and early modern interactions between China, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe. 3 Knowledge brokers and middlemen: how the Portuguese and other trading communities brought military technology and know-how to Makassar in the 17th century Tristan Mostert (U. Leiden) The early 17th century saw the attempts of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to become the sole European power with access to the Moluccas, and the clove and nutmeg coming from there. Makassar, a trade entrepôt on South Sulawesi, and the capital of the sultanate of Gowa, increasingly became the center of resistance against the Dutch monopolistic policies. Its interests and involvement in the Moluccas predated those of the VOC, and in the course of the 17th century it became a harbour where European and Asian traders alike would come to buy their spices and trade other high-value goods. While Makassar was on the one hand a proud bandar, or free harbour, it also participated in the political and military scramble in the Moluccas, expanding its political influence there and thus preserving its continued access to these spices. This made Makassar both a harbor of choice and a valuable ally to other powers in the region, both Asian and European. Makassar was able to use its position as an international port with extensive diplomatic contacts to procure weapons, military technology and knowhow. This paper will explore this, with particular emphasis on the Portuguese community which substantially grew in the course of the 17th century, particularly as many Portuguese found their way there in the wake of the fall of Malakka in 1641. Even as this Portuguese community became increasingly independent from the Estado da India, it remained an important channel of weapons and military know-how to Makassar – with Iberian military manuals being translated into Makasar, the fort which housed the royal palace betraying Portuguese influence in its design, Portuguese renegades serving as advisors to the Gowan Court, and the Portuguese being allowed their own weapons in the city and defending the city from the VOC in when it attacked in 1660. Tristan Mostert studied global and colonial history at Leiden University. He completed his research master in 2007 (cum laude) with a thesis on the military system that the Dutch East India Company (VOC) built up over the first decades of its existence, and the way in which this system was put to practice in the years 1655-1663. He subsequently held various positions as a teacher, curator, researcher and educator at various museums and cultural institutions, including the Bataviawerf, the Rijksmuseum and the Openluchtmuseum Arnhem. Tristan Mostert (1981) investigates the conflict between the Southeast Asian state of Makassar and the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the mid-17th century. His main interest is in the relevance of this conflict for current debates global military history, but his study takes a broad approach and includes the position that the cosmopolitan trading port of Makassar had within cultural, economic and political networks throughout the Asian maritime world. 4 The Rise and Fall of the Fiscal State and Guns in China Peter Lorge (Vanderbilt U.) From the 11th to the 12th century, Song dynasty (960-1279) China became a tax state and then a fiscal state. Guns were developed and used on the battlefield as a result of this political and economic shift. The Song fiscal state persisted even after it lost control of north China and its highly reticulated water-transport network to the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115-1234) in 1127. The Mongols destroyed the Jin in 1234, and then the Song in 1279, ending the Chinese fiscal state. After the fall of Southern Song China, gun
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