Furies War in Europe, 1450-1700

Name: Furies War in Europe, 1450-1700
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ISBN: 9781608196180

ISBN-10: 1608196186

ISBN-13: 9781608196180

Edition: 2014

Authors: Lauro Martines

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We think of the Renaissance as a shining era of human achievement--a pinnacle of artistic genius and humanist brilliance, the time of Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Montaigne. Yet it was also an age of constant, harrowing warfare. Armies, not philosophers, shaped the face of Europe as modern nation-states emerged from feudal society. In Furies, one of the leading scholars of Renaissance history captures the dark reality of the period in a gripping narrative mosaic. As Lauro Martines shows us, total war was no twentieth-century innovation. These conflicts spared no civilians in their path. A Renaissance army was a mobile city-indeed, a force of 20,000 or 40,000 men was larger than many…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 11/20/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.46" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Lauro Martines is an author and independent scholar who has taught history in Los Angeles, London, and Paris. Murtha Baca is head of the Standards and Vocabulary Programs at the Getty Research Institute.