The Twilight Of A Military Tradition: Italian Aristocrats And European Conflicts, 1560-1800Routledge, 2008 M02 22 - 384 pages First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe. |
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... patricians and feudatories consigned their armour and weapons to display cases. This development has many implications for the ulterior evolution of thepeninsula«s history. What effect did it have on the developmentof the modern state ...
... patricians and feudatories consigned their armour and weapons to display cases. This development has many implications for the ulterior evolution of thepeninsula«s history. What effect did it have on the developmentof the modern state ...
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... patricians and feudal lords retained theirmilitary traditions and refurbished them with every new generation. Moreover, service to the Habsburgs wasnot the attribute solely oftheNeapolitan, Sicilian orMilanese aristocracy,over which the ...
... patricians and feudal lords retained theirmilitary traditions and refurbished them with every new generation. Moreover, service to the Habsburgs wasnot the attribute solely oftheNeapolitan, Sicilian orMilanese aristocracy,over which the ...
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... patrician civilians inthe capital, through their system of deputized proveditors to thearmy and navy. Venetian officials called outthelocal militias and the feudal levies, whowould not exceed the numbers ofprofessional troops until an ...
... patrician civilians inthe capital, through their system of deputized proveditors to thearmy and navy. Venetian officials called outthelocal militias and the feudal levies, whowould not exceed the numbers ofprofessional troops until an ...
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... patrician for the Papal States, and admiral Sebastiano Venier forVenice. TheVenetian flotillas at Crete united with ... patricians commanded the galleys. To compensate for thescarcity of soldiers, the Venetians led raids into Bosnia and ...
... patrician for the Papal States, and admiral Sebastiano Venier forVenice. TheVenetian flotillas at Crete united with ... patricians commanded the galleys. To compensate for thescarcity of soldiers, the Venetians led raids into Bosnia and ...
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... patrician entrepreneursin Spanish pay. Gian Andrea Doria, the most famous of them, provided11 of his other the own galleys, while patrician families, like Grimaldi, the Centurioneand 49 the Sauli, furnished 15 more. The entire Catholic ...
... patrician entrepreneursin Spanish pay. Gian Andrea Doria, the most famous of them, provided11 of his other the own galleys, while patrician families, like Grimaldi, the Centurioneand 49 the Sauli, furnished 15 more. The entire Catholic ...
Contents
The Forty Years War 1618c59 | |
The Venetian epic 1600c1718 | |
The Spanish | |
Austrian horizons expanding 6Profiles and careers | |
The Piedmontese exception The developmentof the Piedmontese military state | |
TheGreat Powers andItalian demilitarization 1700c1814 | |
Themilitary imagination | |
Index | |
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