Exploring the results of warfare on country energy in early smooth Europe, this e-book asks if army festival elevated rulers' strength over their matters and solid extra glossy states, or if the lines of struggle holiday down political and administrative platforms. evaluating England and the Netherlands within the age of warrior princes comparable to Henry VIII and Charles V, it examines the advance of recent army and financial associations, and asks how mobilization for warfare replaced political relationships all through society.
Towns in England, akin to Norwich, York, Exeter, and Rye, are in comparison with cities within the Netherlands, equivalent to Antwerp, Leiden, 's-Hertogenbosch and Valenciennes, to work out how the magistrates' kinfolk with important executive and the city population have been transformed via conflict. nice noblemen from the Howard and Percy households are set along their equivalents from the homes of Cro and Egmond to check the position of recruitment, military command, and heroic attractiveness in holding noble strength. the broader interactions of matters and rulers in wartime are reviewed to degree how successfully struggle prolonged princes' claims on their matters' loyalty and repair, their objectives to regulate information and opinion and to advertise nationwide identification, and their skill to control the economic climate and harness spiritual swap to dynastic reasons. the result's a compelling yet nuanced photograph of societies and polities established and formed via the pressures of ever extra challenging warfare.
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