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BOW VERSUS GUN

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A Renaissance Controversy by JOHN Hale Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
The speaker uses the sixteenth-century debate over the retention of the long bow to show how, in the history of war, even the deciding of a severely technical issue may call for an understanding of the society and ideas of the time. Second broadcast

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