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Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Mercenaries in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Janin, Hunt
Carlson, Ursula

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 078647274X
ISBN13: 9780786472741
Publisher: Mcfarland & Co Inc
Published: Jul 16 2013
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.03
Language: English

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.

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