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The Scramble for Italy - Continuity and Change in the Italian Wars, 1494-1559 (Paperback)
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The Scramble for Italy - Continuity and Change in the Italian Wars, 1494-1559 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of
conflicts known as the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The aim of this
book is to explore the trends of continuity and change that
characterized the sixteenth century in order to demonstrate the
significance of the Italian Wars as an especially intense period of
warfare that drove forward several important social, political, and
especially military developments. Employing a myriad of primary and
secondary sources, this book illustrates how the European nobility,
still very much steeped in knightly and chivalric ideals, was
fashioning the Italian Wars into an essentially traditional
aristocratic war, while the rise of military professionalization
and privatization, accompanied by the processes of centralization
and consolidation of political power, were rapidly changing their
world. Moreover, the book attempts to demonstrate that although the
debate on a supposed military revolution in late medieval and early
modern Europe still rages, sixteenth-century soldiers and
intellectuals were quite certain, and anxious, about the potential
effects of gunpowder weapons and novel tactics and strategy on
their world. Scholars and general readers who are interested in the
political and military history of late medieval and early modern
Europe should find this study especially instructive.
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