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Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy: 102 (History of Warfare, 102) - Hardcover

Shaw, Christine

 
9789004282759: Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy: 102 (History of Warfare, 102)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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).

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