Italy and the European powers the impact of war, 1500-1530 (Brill, 2006)
"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 in the University of Warwick.". - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
COVER13; -- CONTENTS13; -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- ITALY AS A THEATRE OF WAR -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF WAR, 14948211;1530 -- Michael Mallett -- HOMMES DE GUERRE ET GENS DE FINANCE: THE INQUEST ON THE FRENCH DEFEAT IN NAPLES 15038211;4 -- Atis Antonovics -- THE FACE OF THE SIEGE: FORTIFICATION, TACTICS AND STRATEGY IN THE EARLY ITALIAN WARS -- Simon Pepper -- LORETO, LEO X AND THE FORTIFICATIONS ON THE ADRIATIC COAST AGAINST THE INFIDEL -- Eva Renzulli -- INDEPENDENT ITALY AND THE WARS -- THE ENDING OF THE DUCHY OF CAMERINO -- John Law -- POLITICAL ALLEGIANCES AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES IN THE WRITINGS OF NICCOL210; MACHIAVELLI AND FRANCESCO GUICCIARDINI -- H.C. Butters -- THE PAPACY AND THE EUROPEAN POWERS -- Christine Shaw -- OCCUPATION AND FOREIGN RULE -- FERDINAND THE CATHOLIC AND THE KINGDOM OF NAPLES -- David Abulafia -- MILAN DURING THE ITALIAN WARS (14998211;1529): EXPERIMENTS IN REPRESENTATION AND DEFINITIONS OF CITIZENSHIP -- Letizia Arcangeli -- A QUESTION OF SOVEREIGNTY: FRANCE AND GENOA, 14948211;1528 -- George L. Gorse -- THE CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONQUEST AND ASSIMILATION -- ARMS AND LETTERS: THE CRISIS OF COURTLY CULTURE IN THE WARS OF ITALY -- John M. Najemy -- VISIONS OF WAR IN THE 8216;TERRESTRIAL PARADISE8217;. IMAGES OF ITALY IN EARLY SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH TEXTS -- Nicole Hochner -- CARDINALS AND COURTESANS: SECULAR MUSIC IN ROME, 15008211;1520 -- William F. Prizer -- MUSIC AND CRISIS IN FLORENCE AND ROME, 15278211;30 -- Iain Fenlon -- ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES AND THE WARS OF ITALY -- Jonathan Davies -- INDEX.
This is a pioneering 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. Together they throw light on the complex effects of the wars, how Italians tried to explain and to react to the dramatic changes these brought, and how the European powers who conquered and occupied Italian states dealt with their new subjects