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Title Early modern military identities, 1560-1639 : reality and representation / edited by Matthew Woodcock and Cian O'Mahony
Published Cambridge : D.S. Brewer ; Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 316 pages) : illustrations
Summary Within the large-scale historiography of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century warfare and the early modern military revolution there remain many unanswered questions about the individual soldier and their relationship to the profession of arms. What was it that distinguished a soldier from the rest of society? How was the military life perceived in this period by those with first-hand experience of soldiery, or who represented soldiers on the page and stage? How were nationality, class, and gender used to construct military identities? And how were such identities also shaped by classical and medieval models? This book examines how early modern fighting men and their peers viewed and represented themselves in military roles, and how they were viewed and fashioned by others. Focusing on English, Irish and Anglo-Irish soldiers active between the 1560s and 1630s, and using sources including poetry, petitions, sermons, military treatises and manuals, campaign records, and plays by Shakespeare, Middleton and their contemporaries, a combination of historians and literary scholars offer new investigations into the construction, representation and interpretation of military identity, and consider the personal and political implications of martial self-fashioning. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and methodologies, the essays here demonstrate how the study of military identity-and military identities-intersects with that of life-writing, digital humanities, gender, disability, the history of emotions, and the relationship between early modern literature and martial culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed December 4, 2019)
Subject Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Conduct of life -- History -- 16th century
Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Conduct of life -- History -- 17th century
Military art and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century
Military art and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Military history, Modern -- 16th century.
Military history, Modern -- 17th century.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century.
Military art and science
Soldiers -- Conduct of life
Military history, Modern
Soldats -- Morale pratique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1500-1800.
Art et science militaires -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1500-1800.
SUBJECT Europe -- History, Military -- 1492-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004941
Subject Europe
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
Author Woodcock, Matthew, 1973- editor.
O'Mahony, Cian, editor
ISBN 9781787444911
1787444910