An investigation into how soldiers of this period considered and
presented themselves. Within the large-scale historiography of
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century warfare and the early modern
military revolution there remain many unanswered questions about
the individual soldier and their relationship to the profession of
arms. What was it that distinguished a soldier from the rest of
society? How was the military life perceived in this period by
those with first-hand experience of soldiery, or who represented
soldiers on the page and stage?How were nationality, class, and
gender used to construct military identities? And how were such
identities also shaped by classical and medieval models? This book
examines how early modern fighting men and their peers viewed and
represented themselves in military roles, and how they were viewed
and fashioned by others. Focusing on English, Irish and Anglo-Irish
soldiers active between the 1560s and 1630s, and using sources
including poetry, petitions, sermons, military treatises and
manuals, campaign records, and plays by Shakespeare, Middleton and
their contemporaries, a combination of historians and literary
scholars offer new investigations into the construction,
representation and interpretation of military identity, and
consider the personal and political implications of martial
self-fashioning. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and
methodologies, the essays here demonstrate how the study of
military identity-and military identities-intersects with that of
life-writing, digital humanities, gender, disability, the history
of emotions, and the relationship between early modern literature
and martial culture. MATTHEW WOODCOCK is Professor of Medieval and
Early Modern Literature, University of East Anglia; CIAN O'MAHONY
is an Independent Scholar. Contributors: Angela Andreani, Benjamin
Armintor, Ruth Canning, David Edwards, Andrew Hadfield, Andrew
Hiscock, Adam McKeown, Philip Major, Cian O'Mahony, James O'Neill,
Vimala Pasupathi, Clodagh Tait, David Trim, Matthew Woodcock.
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