Hero of Italy - Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, His Soldiers, His Subjects in Thirty

Relates the misadventure of a minor Italian state whose prince led it into a major war against the principal European power of the time

List of contents

• Introduction: the other Thirty Years' War


• 1: The moth and the flame


• 2: Duke Odoardo's army


• 3: The Duke of Parma's great adventure


• 4: Duke Odoardo's subjects


• Conclusion

About the author

Gregory Hanlon is a French-trained behavioural historian whose work draws from a wide range of social and behavioural sciences. Over his career his work has embraced a variety of historical problems, including religious and military history. An anthropologist whose subjects are long-dead, he has written two books on closely-studied communities in 17th-century Italy and France and a book on the harsh realities of military campaigning.

Summary

Relates the misadventure of a minor Italian state whose prince led it into a major war against the principal European power of the time

Additional text

This work is significant because, unlike many recent studies of early modern military issues, which have treated either operational military history or war and society in isolation, it explicitly links operational military history to its effects on society. Historians of the Thirty Years' War and of the military Revolution will find much of value in it. It is an important step in establishing the Italian theater of the Thirty Years' War as a subject worthy of its own synthetic overview.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Hanlon, Gregory (Professor of European History Hanlon, Hanlon Gregory
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2014
• EAN: 9780199687244
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968724-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, RELIGION / History, military history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)