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John Hawkwood : an English mercenary in fourteenth-century Italy
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- William Caferro
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xv, 459 pages) : maps
- data file
- ISBNs
- 0801888808, 0801883237, 9780801888809, 9780801883231
- OCLC
- ocn614506415, ocn923193426
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-447) and index.
- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Preface -- Hawkwood Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 John Hawkwood in Perspective: The Man and the Myth -- PART I: MAKING OF A WARRIOR -- 2 Essex Lad, King�s Soldier, and Member of the White Company, 1323�1363 -- 3 Italy and the Profession of Arms -- PART II: RISE OF A MERCENARY CAPTAIN -- 4 The Fox and the Lion: The Pisan-Florentine War, 1363�1364 -- 5 John Hawkwood of Pisa and Milan, 1365�1372 -- 6 In the Service of God and Mammon, 1372�1375 -- PART III: THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER CAPTAIN IN ITALY
- 7 John Hawkwood and the War of Eight Saints, 1375�13778 Love and Diplomacy, 1377�1379 -- 9 At Home in the Romagna, 1379�1381 -- 10 Neapolitan Soldier and Tuscan Lord, 1381�1384 -- PART IV: VETERAN CAPTAIN AND FLORENTINE HERO -- 11 The Deal with the Devil, the Birth of a Son, and a Victory at Castagnaro, 1385�1387 -- 12 At the Center of the Storm: Florence and the Military Buildup, 1387�1389 -- 13 The War against Milan, 1390�1392 -- 14 Two Weddings, a Funeral, and a Disputed Legacy, 1392�1394�1412 -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes