Shadow Agents of Renaissance War : : Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond / / ed. by Stephen Bowd, Sarah Cockram, John Gagné.
Who were the shadow agents of Renaissance war? In this pioneering collection of essays scholars use new archival evidence and other sources, including literature, artworks, and other non-textual material, to uncover those men, women, children and other animals who sustained war by means of their pre...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Renaissance History, Art and Culture ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- I Introduction: War and Agency
- Introduction
- II The Unwilling Agents of War
- 1 Refugees, Forced Migration and Henry VIII’s Conquest of France, 1544–46
- 2 Prisoners for War
- 3 ‘A Horse is a Feeling Animal’
- III The Organizers and Suppliers of War
- 4 Shadow Bureaucrats and Bureaucracy in Trecento Florence
- 5 Heralds and the Representational Culture of War, 1350–1600
- 6 The Diverse Agencies of Renaissance Engineers in the Shadow of War
- 7 Agents of Firearms Supply in Sixteenth-Century Italy
- 8 The Invisible Trade
- IV Women and Agency in War
- 9 Gender, War, and the State
- 10 Delivering Arms
- 11 Useless Mouths in Early Modern Italian Literature
- Index