Barons and castellans : the military nobility of Renaissance Italy / by Christine Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Christine (Italian Renaissance historian)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Castles.

History.

Landowners.

Nobility.

Italy--History, Military--1268-1559.

Italy.

History, Military.

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Nobility--Italy--History--To 1500.

Landowners--Italy--History--To 1500.

Castles--Italy--History--To 1500.

Italy--Politics and government--1268-1559.

Politics and government.

Italy--Social conditions--1268-1559.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

284 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2015.

Summary:

The military nobility - "signori di castelli", lords of castles - formed an important component of the society of Renaissance Italy, although they how often been disregarded by historians, or treated as an anomaly. In Barons and Castellans. The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy, Christine Shaw provide the first comparative study of "lords of castles", great and small, throughout Italy, examining their military and political significance, and how their roles changed during the Italian Wan. Her main focus is on their military resources and how they deployed them in public und private wars in pursuit of their own interests and in the service of others, and on how military weight affected their political standing and influence. Book jacket.

Contents:

Barons and castellans in the mid-fifteenth century

Lands and fortresses

Barons in the city

Honour, faction and private wars

A life in arms

Allegiance and rebellion I : the fifteenth century

Allegiance and rebellion II : the Italian Wars.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004282759

9004282750

OCLC:

891718658