Barons and Castellans : the military nobility of Renaissance Italy
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Barons and Castellans : the military nobility of Renaissance Italy
(History of warfare, v. 102)
Brill, c2015
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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