AXEL E. W. MÜLLER is Congress Director of the International Medieval Congress and teaches in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds.

While it might be easy to pigeonhole this volume as mostly a curiosity of late medieval military history, in the editor's hands it becomes a much broader window into both the practical features and the self-representational rhetoric of artisanship and craft culture during this period. Historians of medieval physics, technology, alchemy, recipe collections, and even book and manuscript history are likely to find much to interest them.

• Introduction 1. The Firework Book Tradition 2. The Use and Reception of the Firework Book3. The Leeds Firework Book4. The Text of Royal Armouries I.34Editorial Principles Edition and Translation 5. Analysis of the TextConclusionBibliographyIndex

AXEL E. W. MÜLLER is Congress Director of the International Medieval Congress and teaches in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds.

While it might be easy to pigeonhole this volume as mostly a curiosity of late medieval military history, in the editor's hands it becomes a much broader window into both the practical features and the self-representational rhetoric of artisanship and craft culture during this period. Historians of medieval physics, technology, alchemy, recipe collections, and even book and manuscript history are likely to find much to interest them.

• Introduction 1. The Firework Book Tradition 2. The Use and Reception of the Firework Book3. The Leeds Firework Book4. The Text of Royal Armouries I.34Editorial Principles Edition and Translation 5. Analysis of the TextConclusionBibliographyIndex

AXEL E. W. MÜLLER is Congress Director of the International Medieval Congress and teaches in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds.

While it might be easy to pigeonhole this volume as mostly a curiosity of late medieval military history, in the editor's hands it becomes a much broader window into both the practical features and the self-representational rhetoric of artisanship and craft culture during this period. Historians of medieval physics, technology, alchemy, recipe collections, and even book and manuscript history are likely to find much to interest them.

• Introduction 1. The Firework Book Tradition 2. The Use and Reception of the Firework Book3. The Leeds Firework Book4. The Text of Royal Armouries I.34Editorial Principles Edition and Translation 5. Analysis of the TextConclusionBibliographyIndex