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Informationen zum Autor Hunt Janin is an American writer living in southwestern France. He has written numerous nonfiction and scholarly books on a range of subjects, including medieval history and cross-cultural studies. Ursula Carlson is a professor emerita at Western Nevada College, Carson City, Nevada. Klappentext In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in Western Europe over a period of nearly 900 years, from the Merovingian mercenaries of 752 through the Thirty Years' War, which ended in 1648. Intended as an introduction to the subject and drawing heavily on contemporary first-person accounts, the book creates a vivid but balanced mosaic of the many thousands of mercenaries who were hired to fight for various employers. Zusammenfassung "In medieval and Renaissance Europe! mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent! colorful! international roles in warfare. Intended as an introduction to the subject and drawing heavily on contemporary first-person accounts! this book creates a vivid but balanced mosaic of mercenaries who were hired to fight for various employers"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsPreface ?BR>Introduction: An Overview of Medieval and Renaissance Warfare ?BR>I.?eeting the Warriors and the Tools of Their Trade ?II.?he ?ong-?aired Kings ?III.?"Human thoughts are inclined to greed" ?IV.?"They went about in bands of thousands" ?V.?"All the foreign knights, bowmen, their attendants and the mercenaries" ?VI.?"An escort of galloglas armed with ?attle-?xes" ?VII.?"Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir" ?4VIII.?"They were bold and warlike fellows" ?6IX.? Skeleton in Armor ?2X.?"The Light of Italy" ?2XI.?"Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless deleteand dangerous" ?1Conclusions ?9Appendices1. Armor ?52. Swiss Mercenaries ?8Chronology ?1Chapter Notes ?5Bibliography ?5Index ?5...
