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
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269) and index
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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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