Italy and the European powers : the impact of war, 1500-1530 / edited by Christine Shaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaw, Christine (Italian Renaissance historian)

Series:

History of warfare ; v. 38.

History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; v. 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Italy--History--16th century.

Military art and science.

Italy--History--16th century.

Italy.

Italy--History, Military--16th century.

Europe--History, Military--1492-1648.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a pioneering examination of the impact of the crucial central phase of the Italian Wars on the society, politics and culture of Italy, and how the experience of these campaigns and their consequences affected the combatants and the way they saw Italy and the Italians. The essays cover a broad range of subjects from fortifications and military organization to civic and royal ritual, music and musicians to universities, political society and diplomacy to the history of ideas. Together they throw light on the complex effects of the wars, how Italians tried to explain and to react to the dramatic changes these brought, and how the European powers who conquered and occupied Italian states dealt with their new subjects.

Contents:

Preface, Christine Shaw

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

ITALY AS A THEATRE OF WAR

The transformation of war, 1494-1530, Michael Mallett

Hommes de guerre et Gens de finance: The inquest on the French defeat in Naples 1503-4, Atis Antonovics

The face of the siege: Fortification, tactics and strategy in the early Italian Wars, Simon Pepper

Loreto, Leo X and the fortifications on the Adriatic coast against the Infidel, Eva Renzulli

INDEPENDENT ITALY AND THE WARS

The ending of the Duchy of Camerino, John Law

Political allegiances and political structures in the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, H. C. Butters

The Papacy and the European powers, Christine Shaw

OCCUPATION AND FOREIGN RULE

Ferdinand the Catholic and the Kingdom of Naples, David Abulafia

Milan during the Italian Wars (1499-1529): Experiments in representation and definitions of citizenship, Letizia Arcangeli

A question of sovereignty: France and Genoa, 1494-1528, George L. Gorse

THE CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONQUEST AND ASSIMILATION

Arms and letters: The crisis of courtly culture in the Wars of Italy, John M. Najemy

Visions of war in the 'terrestrial paradise'. Images of Italy in early sixteenth-century French texts, Nicole Hochner

Cardinals and courtesans: Secular music in Rome, 1500-1520, William F. Prizer

Music and crisis in Florence and Rome, 1527-30, Iain Fenlon

Italian universities and the Wars of Italy, Jonathan Davies

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"Most of the essays in this volume were among those given at a conference sponsored by the AHRB Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures in the Centre for the Study of Renaissance in the University of Warwick."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-40093-9

9786611400934

90-474-0974-4

OCLC:

320326447

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409748 DOI