Renaissance war studies / J.R. Hale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hale, J. R. (John Rigby), 1923-1999, author.

Series:

History series (Hambledon Press) ; v. 11.

History series ; volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Europe--History.

Military art and science.

War--History.

War.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (623 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Hambledon Press, [1983]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 contribution to the study of Renaissance fortifications, their design, planning and execution, and their political as well as their military significance. The second deals with the recruitment and training of officers and men. In the third, contemporary reactions to war are analysed in a variety of social and i

Contents:

CONTENTS; 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; 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; 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

18 Incitement to Violence? English Divines on the Theme of War, 1578 to 1631Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613202222

9781283202220

1283202220

9780826497925

0826497926

OCLC:

741691635