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.