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Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1450-1600 (Warfare in History)

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Publisher
Boydell Press
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Leaves
241
Category
Library
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โœฆ Synopsis

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 and military mentality emerges, which sheds light on the attitude of Renaissance soldiers both towards contemporary historical developments such as the rise of the modern state, and towards such issues as comradeship, women, honor, violence, and death. Comparison with similar medieval and twentieth-century material highlights the differences in the Renaissance soldier's understanding of war and of human experience.

โœฆ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
......Page 7
ABBREVIATIONS
......Page 9
A NOTE ON SPELLING, QUOTATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
......Page 10
INTRODUCTION
......Page 12
Part I: MEMOIRISTS AS EYEWITNESSES AND INDIVIDUALS......Page 34
1. Preliminary Enquiry: The Appearance of Authors as Protagonists......Page 36
2. Truth and Eyewitnessing......Page 38
3. Individualism......Page 54
Part II: THE REALITY OF RENAISSANCE MILITARY MEMOIRS......Page 76
4. The Experience of War......Page 78
5. War as a Phenomenon and an Image......Page 101
6. Tangibility and Abstraction......Page 116
Part III:
THINGS WORTHY OF REMEMBRANCE......Page 120
7. Commemoration......Page 122
8. Causality......Page 132
9. Effacing the Difference between History and Lifestory
......Page 163
Part IV:
THE POLITICS OF RENAISSANCE MILITARY MEMOIRS......Page 168
10. Noble Independence and the Politics of Causality......Page 170
11. The Politics of Exclusion
......Page 186
CONCLUSIONS
......Page 193
Appendix A: Were Renaissance Military Memoirs a Novel Phenomenon?......Page 198
Appendix B: The Memoirists......Page 207
WORKS CITED
......Page 216
INDEX
......Page 230

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