Renaissance war studies
Beginning with the chapters on warfare in the first three volumes of the New Cambridge Modern History, Sir John Hale's writings on the subject present an original and rich assessment of war's place in Renaissance life and thought. The first section of this collection constitutes a major co...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Hambledon Press
1983.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
History series ; v. 11. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35559950*spi |
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- Acknowledgements; Preface ; 1 The Early Development of the Bastion: an Italian Chronology c. 1450- c. 1534; 2 The End of Florentine Liberty: the Fortezza da Basso; 3 Tudor Fortifications, 1485-1558; 4 Francesco Tensini and the Fortification of Vicenza; 5 The First Fifty Years of a Venetian Magistracy the Proweditori die Fortezze ; 6 To Fortify or not to Fortify? Machiavelli''s Contribution to a Renaissance Debate; 7 The Argument of some Military Title Pages of the Renaissance; II. TRAINING AND RECRUITMENT ; 8 The Military Education of the Officer Class in Early Modern Europe.
- 9 On a Tudor Parade Ground: the Captain''s Handbook of Henry Barrett, 156210 Military Academies ont the Venetian Terraferma in the Early Seventeenth Century; 11 Men and Weapons: the Fighting Potential of Sixteenth-Century Venetian Galleys; III. CONTEMPORARY REACTIONS TO WAR ; 12 Sixteenth-Century Explanations of War and Violence; 13 War and Public Opinion in Renaissance Italy; 14 Gunpowder and the Renaissance: an Essay in the History of Ideas; 15 The True Shakespearean Blank; 16 Printing and the Military Culture of Renaissance Venice; 17 Andrea Palladio, Polybius and Julius Caesar.
