Shadow Agents of Renaissance War: Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9789463721356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 326 str.

Bowd, Stephen

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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: War and Agency
(Stephen Bowd, Sarah Cockram, and John Gagné), ‘Introduction’
2. The Unwilling Agents of War
(Neil Murphy), ‘Refugees, Forced Migration and Henry VIII’s Conquest of France, 1544-46’
(Victoria Bartels), ‘Prisoners for War: Convicts, Slaves, and the Culture of Forced Labour in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany’
(Sarah Cockram), ‘“A Horse is a Feeling Animal”: Interspecies Interaction and Animal Agency in Renaissance Warfare’
3. The Organizers and Suppliers of War
(William Caferro), ‘Shadow Bureaucrats and Bureaucracy in Trecento Florence’
(John Gagné), ‘Heralds and the Representational Culture of War, 1350-1600’
(Cristiano Zanetti), ‘The Diverse Agencies of Renaissance Engineers in the Shadow of War’
(Catherine Fletcher), ‘Agents of Firearms Supply in Sixteenth-century Italy: Rethinking the Contractor State’
(Ioanna Iordanou), ‘The Invisible Trade: Commoners and Convicts as Early Modern Venice’s Spies’
4. Women and Agency in War
(Stephen Bowd), ‘Gender, War, and the State: The Military Management of Alda Pio Gambara during the Italian Wars’
(Brian Sandberg), ‘Delivering Arms: Noblewomen, Artillery, and the Gendering of Violence during the French Wars of Religion’
(Gerry Milligan), ‘Useless Mouths in Early Modern Italian Literature: Gian Giorgio Trissino and Lucrezia Marinella’
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