This book examines the developments in military technique and technology which both fueled and resulted from the changing nature of warfare.
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This book is very readable; it is full of epigrams and bon mots. It is also full of important and often provocative comments on European society during the Renaissance. No historian of the period should miss it or fail to recommend it to his students.
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Good survey of critical period in early modern history,
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This review is from: War and Society in Renaissance Europe 1450-1620 (War and European Society) (Paperback)
War and Society attempts to explore the extent to which warfare affected social conventions and vice versa. The author explores a multitide of avenues: weaponry, politics, technological innovation, army composition, state finances, and impact on civilians. His conclusions are somewhat surprising at times, as he does not conclude that war had as great an impact on society as many believe. In fact, society had the greater impact on the conduct of warfare than strictly military factors. A good amount of detail is provided on recruitment, both of leaders and soldiers, mercenaries, early modern taxation, and effects of warfare on the formation of governments (or lack thereof). The weakness is that it is a very difficult book to read, with lots of words that will send you to the dictionary and sentences that last eight lines or so with 3 semicolons, 1 colon, and 7 commas. Despite that, if you are interested in getting a somewhat different view and style about the military-social relationships in early modern Europe, this is a good choice.
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A masterpiece by a master of his subject,
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This review is from: War and Society in Renaissance Europe 1450-1620 (War and European Society) (Paperback)
This is an excellent overview of the effect, influence and relationship of war to society in the period 1450-1620.
The chapters are: P013: Why there were wars P046: The military reformation: techniques and organisation P075: Recruitment: personal and organised violence; the Second Estate P100: Recruitment: the reaction of the Third Estate P127: The society of soldiers: the professionals P153: The society of soldiers: Conditions of service P179: The direct impact of war on civilians P209: The indirect impact: war and the economy P232: The indirect impact: war, taxation and government Notes, Select bibliography and Index - pp255-281 As you can see, each chapter's subject leads on into the subsequent chapter, giving a complete survey of the period. Each chapter is sprinkled with quotes from contemporary commentators and writers, and with relevant observations by the author. Although first published 25 years ago (when I first read it), it is still completely relevant today, and nothing is outdated. If you know nothing about the subject, you might find the flow of names and events a little confusing, but if you have read a little on the subject, then it will fill in many gaps; and if you have read a lot on the subject, it will be like watching a tapestry being created, as each section is interwoven with the next, showing the complex interrelationships involved in renaissance society. Highly recommended.
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War and Society Changing,
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This book has interesting citations whicn reflect he relations between changing society and the art of war in renaissance Europe, A reference book for all those interested in that period
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The period covered by this book opens in 1453 with two sieges that resolved, for the time being, conflicts that had each lasted for a century: in the west, the recapture of Bordeaux marked the end of the Hundred Years War between England and France; in the east, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans marked the consolidation of the Turks' rule in Greece and the Balkans that had begun when they first crossed the Bosphorus in 1352. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
military reformation, princely guards, ordonnance companies, muster lists, military wage, mercenary bands, permanent forces, gunpowder weapons, useless mouths, livres tournois Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charles the Bold, Hundred Years War, Second Estate, New World, Thirty Years War, United Provinces, Articles of War, Gustavus Adolphus, Sir Roger Williams, Third Estate, Wars of the Roses, Lodovico Sforza, France Troops, Lord Burghley, Middle Ages, Privy Council, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wilson, Tower of London, Catherine de Medici New!
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The period covered by this book opens in 1453 with two sieges that resolved, for the time being, conflicts that had each lasted for a century: in the west, the recapture of Bordeaux marked the end of the Hundred Years War between England and France; in the east, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans marked the consolidation of the Turks' rule in Greece and the Balkans that had begun when they first crossed the Bosphorus in 1352. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
military reformation, princely guards, ordonnance companies, muster lists, military wage, mercenary bands, permanent forces, gunpowder weapons, useless mouths, livres tournois Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charles the Bold, Hundred Years War, Second Estate, New World, Thirty Years War, United Provinces, Articles of War, Gustavus Adolphus, Sir Roger Williams, Third Estate, Wars of the Roses, Lodovico Sforza, France Troops, Lord Burghley, Middle Ages, Privy Council, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Wilson, Tower of London, Catherine de Medici New!
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