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Author Shaw, Christine (Italian Renaissance historian), author.

Title Barons and castellans : the military nobility of Renaissance Italy / by Christine Shaw.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Series History of Warfare
History of warfare.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Barons and castellans in the mid-fifteenth century -- Lands and fortresses -- Barons in the city -- Honour, faction and private wars -- A life in arms -- Allegiance and rebellion I : the fifteenth century -- Allegiance and rebellion II : the Italian Wars.
Summary In Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy, Christine Shaw provides the first comparative study of "lords of castles", great and small, throughout Italy, examining their military and political significance, and how their roles changed during the Italian Wars.
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Subject Italy -- History, Military -- 1268-1559.
Italy.
History, Military.
Chronological Term 1268-1559
Subject Renaissance -- Italy.
Renaissance.
Nobility -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.
Nobility.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Landowners -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.
Landowners.
Castles -- Italy -- History -- To 1500.
Castles.
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1268-1559.
Politics and government.
Italy -- Social conditions -- 1268-1559.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term To 1559
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Military history.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Shaw, Christine (Italian Renaissance historian). Barons and castellans. Leiden : Brill, 2015 9789004282759 (DLC) 2014033058 (OCoLC)891718658
ISBN 9789004282766 (e-book)
9004282769 (e-book)
9789004282759 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9004282750 (hardback ; acid-free paper)