Renaissance Mass Murder: Civilians and Soldiers During the Italian Wars

ISBN-13: 9780198832614 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str.

Stephen D. Bowd

Recenzje

This is, in short, a work that offers new perspectives via the study of massacres on all manner of Renaissance sources and texts. Researchers on multiple themes will find inspiration here, whether in relation to the military revolution and the current scholarly interest in martial cultures, or when reconsidering the canonical literary works of Machiavelli and Guicciardini. There is food for thought here too on issues of the nation, religion and ethnicity in early modern European warfare. It is testimony to the strength of this book that it prompts as many new questions about these wars as it answers: it should be essential reading for scholars of early modern Europe.

O autorze

Stephen D. Bowd works at the University of Edinburgh and has published widely on the history of the Italian Renaissance and on culture, religion, and belief in Venice and its empire between 1400 and 1550.