Renaissance military memoirs war, history, and identity, 1450-1600
This is a study of autobiographical writings of Renaissance soldiers. It outlines the ways in which they reflect Renaissance cultural, political and historical consciousness, with a particular focus on conceptions of war, history, selfhood and identity. A vivid picture of Renaissance military life a...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
Boydell Press
2004.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Warfare in history. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39839230*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pt. I. Memoirists as eyewitnesses and individuals
- 1. Preliminary enquiry : the appearance of authors of protagonists
- 2. Truth and eyewitnessing
- 3. Individualism
- pt. II. The reality of renaissance military memoirs
- 4. The experience of war
- 5. War as a phenomenon and an image
- 6. Tangibility and abstraction
- pt. III. Things worthy of remembrance
- 7. Commemoration
- 8. Causality
- 9. Effacing the difference between history and lifestory
- pt. IV. The politics of renaissance military memoirs
- 10. Noble independence and the politics of causality
- 11. The politics of exclusion
- App. A. Were renaissance military memoirs a novel phenomenon?
- App. B. The memoirists.
