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John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
William Caferro
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Description for John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
Paperback. Caferro has mined more than twenty archives in Britain and Italy, creating an authoritative portrait of Hawkwood as an extraordinary military leader, if not always an admirable human being. Num Pages: 480 pages, 16, 8 black & white halftones, 8 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; JWXN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 234 x 35. Weight in Grams: 690.
Winner, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy. Born in England, Hawkwood began his career in France during the Hundred Years' War and crossed into Italy with the famed White Company in 1361. From that time until his death in 1394, Hawkwood fought throughout the peninsula as a captain of armies in times of war and as a commander of marauding bands during times of peace. He achieved international fame, and city-states constantly tried to outbid each other for ... Read more
Winner, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy. Born in England, Hawkwood began his career in France during the Hundred Years' War and crossed into Italy with the famed White Company in 1361. From that time until his death in 1394, Hawkwood fought throughout the peninsula as a captain of armies in times of war and as a commander of marauding bands during times of peace. He achieved international fame, and city-states constantly tried to outbid each other for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
690g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418414
SKU
V9781421418414
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About William Caferro
William Caferro, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt professor of history at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena and Contesting the Renaissance and the coauthor of The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family.
Reviews for John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
This is much more than a biography in the ordinary sense of the word... An excellent contribution to our understanding of both the mercenary phenomenon and the history of Italy in the late fourteenth century.
Speculum
Engaging book... Caferro has made sense of the life of a mercenary captain, who during his career influenced diplomacy, altered finances, and ... Read more
Speculum
Engaging book... Caferro has made sense of the life of a mercenary captain, who during his career influenced diplomacy, altered finances, and ... Read more