Barons and Castellans

The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-28275-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 102, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: History of Warfare

The military nobility – "signori di castelli", lords of castles – formed an important component of the society of Renaissance Italy, although they have often been disregarded by historians, or treated as an anomaly. In Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy, Christine Shaw provides 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 Wars. Her main focus is on their military resources and how they deployed them in public and private wars, in pursuit of their own interests and in the service of others, and on how their military weight affected their political standing and influence.

Zielgruppe

Those interested in the military and political history of Renaissance Italy, in the nobility of fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe, and in military history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaw, Christine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Barons and castellans in the mid-fifteenth century

Chapter 2 Lands and fortresses

Chapter 3 Barons in the city

Chapter 4 Honour, faction and private wars

Chapter 5 A life in arms

Chapter 6 Allegiance and rebellion I: the fifteenth century

Chapter 7 Allegiance and rebellion II: the Italian Wars

Conclusion

Abbreviations and Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Shaw is an Associate Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Among her many publications on Renaissance Italy are Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy (Brill, 2006), and (with Michael Mallett), The Italian Wars 1494-1559 (2012).