Italy and the European powers
Subtitle: the impact of war, 1500-1530
By: edited by Christine Shaw
Contributors: Shaw, Christine
Series: History of warfare -- v. 38
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Military art and science -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Italy -- History -- 16th century; Italy -- History, Military -- 16th century; Europe -- History, Military -- 1492-1648
Description: "This is an examination of the impact of the crucial central phase of the Italian Wars on the society, politics and culture of Italy, and how the experience of these campaigns and their consequences affected the combatants and the way they saw Italy and the Italians. The essays cover a broad range of subjects from fortifications and military organization to civic and royal ritual, music and musicians to universities, political society and diplomacy to the history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Most of the essays in this volume were among those given at a conference sponsored by the AHRB Centre for the Study of Renaissance Elites and Court Cultures in the Centre for the Study of Renaissance of the University of Warwick"--P. xiii

Includes bibliographical references and index