Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Illustrations vii -- Contributors ix -- Acknowledgements xi -- List of Abbreviations xiii --1. Introduction -- D.J.B. Trim 1 --PROLOGUE --2. Why Chivalry? Military 'Professionalism' in the Twelfth Century: The Origins and Expressions of a Socio-military Ethos -- Matthew Bennett 41 --STUDIES IN CHIVALRY AND PROFESSIONALISM IN LATE-MEDIEVAL AND EARLY-MODERN EUROPE --3. Condottieri and Captains in Renaissance Italy -- Michael Mallett 67 -- 4. The Portuguese Nobility, and the Rise and Decline of Portuguese Military Power, 1400-1650 -- Malyn J. Newitt 89 -- 5. Artisans, Architects and Aristocrats: Professionalism and Renaissance Military Engineering -- Simon Pepper 117 -- 6. Chivalry and Professionalism in the French Armies of the Renaissance -- David Potter 149 -- 7. Chivalry, Military Professionalism and the Early Tudor Army in Renaissance Europe: a reassessment -- Luke MacMahon 183 -- 8. Chivalry and Professionalism in Electoral Saxony in the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly 213 -- 9. Soldados Platicos and Caballeros: The Social Dimensions of Ethics in the Early Modern Spanish Army -- Fernando Gonzilez de Len 235 -- 10. Army, Society and Military Professionalism in the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War -- D. J. B. Trim 269 -- 11. The Officer Corps and Army Command in the British Isles, 1620-1660 -- Martyn Bennett 291 --POSTSCRIPT: THE LAST GASP OF CHIVALRY? --12. Shoot Them All: Chivalry, Honour and the Confederate Army Officer Corps -- Mark A. Weitz 321 --Index 349.

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