The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State: Venice c.1400 to 1617 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) - Hardcover

Mallett, M. E.; Hale, J. R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521248426 ISBN 13: 9780521248426

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Synopsis

This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured in terms of the composition, control and cost of armies. Above all, it redresses the imbalance whereby only the naval forces of Venice have been studied seriously. It is thus an essential contribution to an understanding of the extension and maintenance of an empire by land and sea, and of the strength in troops and fortifications that preserved Venice as the one truly independent state in sixteenth-century Italy. It also adds significantly to an understanding of the relationship between Venice and the republic's subject territories.

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Book Description

This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured. Above all, it redresses the imbalance whereby only the naval forces of Venice have been studied seriously.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521248426
• ISBN 13: 9780521248426
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 539