Renaissance military memoirs : war, history, and identity, 1450-1600 /

This is a study of autobiographical writings of Renaissance soldiers. It outlines the ways in which they reflect Renaissance cultural, political and historical consciousness, with a particular focus on conceptions of war, history, selfhood and identity. A vivid picture of Renaissance military life a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harari, Yuval N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2004.
Colección:Warfare in history.
Temas:
To 1648
Soldiers > Biography > History and criticism.
Renaissance > Biography > History and criticism.
Military art and science > Europe > History > To 1500.
Military art and science > Europe > History > 16th century.
Renaissance > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Art et science militaires > Europe > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Art et science militaires > Europe > Histoire > 16e siècle.
HISTORY > Military > Pictorial.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
Military art and science
Soldiers > Biography
Europe > History, Military > 1492-1648.
Europe > Histoire militaire > 1492-1648.
Europe
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Military history
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Memoirists as eyewitnesses and individuals
  • 1. Preliminary enquiry : the appearance of authors of protagonists
  • 2. Truth and eyewitnessing
  • 3. Individualism
  • pt. II. The reality of renaissance military memoirs
  • 4. The experience of war
  • 5. War as a phenomenon and an image
  • 6. Tangibility and abstraction
  • pt. III. Things worthy of remembrance
  • 7. Commemoration
  • 8. Causality
  • 9. Effacing the difference between history and lifestory
  • pt. IV. The politics of renaissance military memoirs
  • 10. Noble independence and the politics of causality
  • 11. The politics of exclusion
  • App. A. Were renaissance military memoirs a novel phenomenon?
  • App. B. The memoirists.

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