Italy and the European Powers

Christine Shaw, D.Phil. (1983), University of Oxford, is a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. She has published extensively on the political history of Renaissance Italy, including The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy (2000).

• Preface, Christine ShawAbbreviationsList of ContributorsITALY AS A THEATRE OF WARThe transformation of war, 1494–1530, Michael MallettHommes de guerre et Gens de finance: The inquest on the French defeat in Naples 1503–4, Atis AntonovicsThe face of the siege: Fortification, tactics and strategy in the early Italian Wars, Simon PepperLoreto, Leo X and the fortifications on the Adriatic coast against the Infidel, Eva RenzulliINDEPENDENT ITALY AND THE WARSThe ending of the Duchy of Camerino, John LawPolitical allegiances and political structures in the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, H. C. ButtersThe Papacy and the European powers, Christine ShawOCCUPATION AND FOREIGN RULEFerdinand the Catholic and the Kingdom of Naples, David AbulafiaMilan during the Italian Wars (1499–1529): Experiments in representation and definitions of citizenship, Letizia ArcangeliA question of sovereignty: France and Genoa, 1494–1528, George L. GorseTHE CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONQUEST AND ASSIMILATIONArms and letters: The crisis of courtly culture in the Wars of Italy, John M. NajemyVisions of war in the ‘terrestrial paradise’. Images of Italy in early sixteenth-century French texts, Nicole HochnerCardinals and courtesans: Secular music in Rome, 1500–1520, William F. PrizerMusic and crisis in Florence and Rome, 1527–30, Iain FenlonItalian universities and the Wars of Italy, Jonathan DaviesIndex