War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620

This book examines the developments in military technique and technology which both fueled and resulted from the changing nature of warfare.

This book is very readable; it is full of epigrams and bon mots. It is also full of important and often provocative comments on European society during the Renaissance. No historian of the period should miss it or fail to recommend it to his students. Times Literary Supplement

J.R. Hale is professor of Italian history at University College, London, and a fellow of the British Academy. Among his many previous works are Renaissance Europe: The Individual and Society, 1480-1520 and, most recently, The Military Organization of a Renaissance State: Venice c. 1400 to 1617 (with M.E. Mallett).