The French Descent Into Renaissance Italy 1494 95

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351889339

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The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494–95 by David Abulafia Pdf

The French invasion of Italy under Charles VIII in 1494-95 has long been seen as inaugurating a new and wretched era in Italian history. The present volume, the work of an international team of contributors, seeks to question that assumption by focusing anew on the intricate politics of Renaissance Italy and the long history of Angevin attempts to impose their rule in southern Italy. It was later invasions, it is argued, that did most to reshape the politics of the Italian peninsula. These studies also look at social and economic effects of the French invasion, as well as its cultural aspects, not least the impact of Renaissance culture in France itself. Combining survey papers and research articles, this volume presents a new introduction to the history of late 15th-century Italy. The appendix, listing the Ilardi collection of microfilms, will also provide an invaluable guide to the diplomatic history of the era.

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : France
ISBN : LCCN:95034786

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The French Descent Into Renaissance Italy, 1494-95 by David Abulafia Pdf

Author : Charles Messenger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2817 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135959777

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Reader's Guide to Military History by Charles Messenger Pdf

This book contains some 600 entries on a range of topics from ancient Chinese warfare to late 20th-century intervention operations. Designed for a wide variety of users, it encompasses general reviews of aspects of military organization and science, as well as specific wars and conflicts. The book examines naval and air warfare, as well as significant individuals, including commanders, theorists, and war leaders. Each entry includes a listing of additional publications on the topic, accompanied by an article discussing these publications with reference to their particular emphases, strengths, and limitations.

Author : Christine Shaw,Michael Mallett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351725408

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The Italian Wars 1494-1559 by Christine Shaw,Michael Mallett Pdf

The Italian Wars 1494–1559 outlines the major impact that these wars had, not just on the history of Italy, but on the history of Europe as a whole. It provides the first detailed account of the entire course of the wars, covering all the campaigns and placing the military conflicts in their political, diplomatic, social and economic contexts. Throughout the book, new developments in military tactics, the composition of armies, the balance between infantry and cavalry, and the use of firearms are described and analysed. How Italians of all sectors of society reacted to the wars and the inevitable political and social change that they brought about is also examined, offering a view of the wars from a variety of perspectives. Fully updated and containing a range of maps as well as a brand-new chapter on propaganda and images of war, this second edition of The Italian Wars 1494–1559 is essential reading for all students of Renaissance and military history.

Author : John E. Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351950350

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Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy by John E. Law Pdf

Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones's original 1965 article, the volume then provides twenty new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and Renaissance Italy.

Author : Dana E. Katz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812240856

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The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance by Dana E. Katz Pdf

Dana E. Katz reveals how Italian Renaissance painting became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence from the real world onto a symbolic world. While the rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317899396

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The Italian Wars 1494-1559 by Anonim Pdf

The Italian Wars of 1494-1559 had a major impact on the whole of Renaissance Europe. In this important text, Michael Mallett and Christine Shaw place the conflict within the political and economic context of the wars. Emphasising the gap between aims and strategies of the political masters and what their commanders and troops could actually accomplish on the ground, they analyse developments in military tactics and the tactical use of firearms and examine how Italians of all sectors of society reacted to the wars and the inevitable political and social change that they brought about. The history of Renaissance Italy is currently being radically rethought by historians. This book is a major contribution to this re-evaluation, and will be essential reading for all students of Renaissance and military history.

Author : Guido Ruggiero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521895200

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The Renaissance in Italy by Guido Ruggiero Pdf

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence, and sexuality. The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar, yet alien; pre-modern, but suggestively post-modern; attractive and troubling, this book returns the Italian Renaissance to center stage in our past and in our historical analysis.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134477081

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European Warfare, 1494-1660 by Jeremy Black Pdf

The onset of the Italian Wars in 1494, subsequently seen as the onset of 'modern warfare', provides the starting point for this impressive survey of European Warfare in early modern Europe. Huge developments in the logistics of war combined with exploration and expansion meant interaction with extra-European forms of military might. Jeremy Black looks at technological aspects of war as well social and political developments and effects during this key period of military history. This sharp and compact analysis contextualises European developments and as establishes the global significance of events in Europe.

Author : Christine Shaw
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047409748

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Italy and the European Powers by Christine Shaw Pdf

A wide-ranging collection of essays, examining the effects of the central phase of the Italian Wars on the politics, culture and society of Italy, on military organization and the conduct of war, and on the image and reputation of Italy and the Italians.

Author : David Potter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843834052

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Renaissance France at War by David Potter Pdf

The rulers of Renaissance France regarded war as hugely important. This book shows why, looking at all aspects of warfare from strategy to its reception, depiction and promotion.

Author : Christine Shaw
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047410621

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Popular Government and Oligarchy in Renaissance Italy by Christine Shaw Pdf

An examination of the nature of popular government and oligarchy in towns and cities throughout Renaissance Italy, and of the reasons why broadly-based civic governments were losing ground.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191524844

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Italy in the Age of the Renaissance by John M. Najemy Pdf

Italy in the Age of Renaissance offers a new introduction to the most celebrated period of Italian history in twelve essays by leading and innovative scholars. Recent scholarship has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Italy by adding new themes and perspectives that have challenged the traditional picture of a largely secular and elite world of humanists, merchants, patrons, and princes. These new themes encompass both social and cultural history (the family, women, lay religion, the working classes, marginal social groups) as well as new dimensions of political history that highlight the growth of territorial states, the powers and limits of government, the representation of power in art and architecture, the role of the South, and the dialogue between elite and non-elite classes. This thematically organized volume introduces readers to the fruitful interaction between the more traditional topics in Renaissance studies and the new, broader approach to the period that has developed in the last generation.

Author : Stephen Turnbull
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526713773

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The Art of Renaissance Warfare by Stephen Turnbull Pdf

A history of the evolution of military technology among knights in Renaissance Europe from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. The Art of Renaissance Warfare tells the story of the knight during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries—from the great victories of Edward III and the Black Prince to the fall of Richard III on Bosworth Field. During this period, new technology on the battlefield posed deadly challenges for the mounted warrior; but they also stimulated change, and the knight moved with the times. Having survived the longbow devastation at Crécy, Poitiers and Agincourt, he emerged triumphant, his armor lighter and more effective, and his military skills indispensable. This was the great age of the orders of chivalry and the freemasonry of arms that bound together comrades and adversaries in a tight international military caste. Men such as Bertrand du Guesclin and Sir John Chandos loom large in the pages of this book—bold leaders and brave warriors, imbued with these traditions of chivalry and knighthood. How their heroic endeavors and the knightly code of conduct could be reconciled with the indiscriminate carnage of the “chevauchee” and the depredations of the “free companies” is one of the principal themes of this informative and entertaining book.

Author : Christopher Duggan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521760393

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A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan Pdf

A comprehensively updated new edition of Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction to the history of Italy.