Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

8/1/1995 - 1/31/1999

Funding Totals

$113,198.00 (approved)
$113,197.80 (awarded)


The Trebuchet: Siegecraft and Technology

FAIN: RH-21267-95

Paul E. Chevedden
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Los Angeles, CA 90043)

To support a history of the development of the trebuchet (medieval catapult), the principal artillery weapon of the Middle Ages, and of the subsequent diffusion of this technology throughout Eurasia and Northern Africa.