num_pages: 288
description: Based upon a wide range of historical and literary sources, Swordsmen is a scholarly study of the military experiences of peers and gentlemen from the British Isles who volunteered to fight in the religious and dynastic wars of mainland Europe from the English intervention in the Dutch war of independence in 1585 to the death of the soldier-king William III in 1702. This apprenticeship in arms exposed these aristocrats to the chivalric revival, the military revolution and the values of neostoicism, and revived the martial ethos of the English aristocracy and reinvigorated the martial traditions of the Irish and Scots.
language: English
title: Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms
titlecomplete: Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Oxford University Press