Early Modern Military Identities, 1560-1639 (eBook, PDF)

Reality and Representation
Redaktion: Woodcock, Matthew; O'Mahony, Cian

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Produktbeschreibung

An investigation into how soldiers of this period considered and presented themselves.

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.

MATTHEW WOODCOCK is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature, University of East Anglia; CIAN O'MAHONY is an Independent Scholar.

Contributors: Angela Andreani, Benjamin Armintor, Ruth Canning, David Edwards, Andrew Hadfield, Andrew Hiscock, Adam McKeown, Philip Major, Cian O'Mahony, James O'Neill, Vimala Pasupathi, Clodagh Tait, David Trim, Matthew Woodcock.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787444911
• Artikelnr.: 63205893

Autorenporträt

Matthew Woodcock, Cian O'Mahony

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 'Warlike prowesse and manly courage': Martial Conduct and
Masculine Identity in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England - David Trim 'The
Breviarie of Soldiers': Julius Caesar's Commentaries and the Fashioning of
Early Modern Military Identity - Matthew Woodcock 'Souldiers or Clarkes or
both': Ralph Knevet and the Fashioning of Military Identity through Print
and Performance in Caroline Norwich - Cian O'Mahony Thomas, First Lord
Fairfax and 'The Highway to Heidelberg' - Philip Major The Clergy and the
Military in Early Modern Ireland - Angela Andreani and Andrew Hadfield
'Trust, Desert, Power and skill to serve': The Old English and Military
Identities in Late Elizabethan Ireland - Ruth Canning Artifice in Ormonius
: Why a Renaissance Latin Epic Falsified the Military History of a Tudor
Irish General - David Edwards Irish Savage and English Butcher: Military
Identities and Tyrone's Rebellion, 1593-1603 - James O'Neill 'A print in my
body of this day's service': Finding Meaning in Wounding During and After
the Nine Years War - Clodagh Tait Othello and the Braggart Soldier in the
Context of Elizabethan War Veterans - Adam McKeown 'Lay by thine Arms and
take the Citie then': Soldiery and City in the Drama of Thomas Middleton -
Samuel Rogers / Reviews 'Sometimes a figure, sometimes a cipher': Dramatic
Assertions of Martial Identity, 1580-1642 - Benjamin Armintor 'Sometimes a
figure, sometimes a cipher': Dramatic Assertions of Martial Identity,
1580-1642 - Vimala Pasupathi Afterword: The Way Ahead Bibliography