Description
About the Author
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.
Reviews
With this book, Bowd deftly achieves his goal of "bringing the modern reader closer to the forms of consciousness and experiences of civilians and soldiers during the Italian Wars without, at the same time, wrenching them out of their time or rendering them merely pitiable"...this is a laudable, impressive contribution to the thriving field of violence in early modern Italy. * Amanda Madden, Georgia Institute of Technology, Comptes Rendus *
This is a remarkable book that gives new and important insights into the nature of mass violence during the Italian Wars. * Colin Rose, Brock University, Renaissance Quarterly *
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. * Catherine Fletcher, European History Quarterly *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198832614
Author Stephen D. Bowd
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 624g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 164mm * 24mm