Early Modern Military Identities, 1560–1639 – Reality and Representation

Matthew Woodcock, Cian O'Mahony

Introduction 'Warlike prowesse and manly courage': Martial Conduct and Masculine Identity in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England - David Trim 'The Breviarie of Soldiers': Julius Caesar's Commentaries and the Fashioning of Early Modern Military Identity - Matthew Woodcock 'Souldiers or Clarkes or both': Ralph Knevet and the Fashioning of Military Identity through Print and Performance in Caroline Norwich - Cian O'Mahony Thomas, First Lord Fairfax and 'The Highway to Heidelberg' - Philip Major The Clergy and the Military in Early Modern Ireland - Angela Andreani and Andrew Hadfield 'Trust, Desert, Power and skill to serve': The Old English and Military Identities in Late Elizabethan Ireland - Ruth Canning Artifice in Ormonius: Why a Renaissance Latin Epic Falsified the Military History of a Tudor Irish General - David Edwards Irish Savage and English Butcher: Military Identities and Tyrone's Rebellion, 1593-1603 - James O'Neill 'A print in my body of this day's service': Finding Meaning in Wounding During and After the Nine Years War - Clodagh Tait Othello and the Braggart Soldier in the Context of Elizabethan War Veterans - Adam McKeown 'Lay by thine Arms and take the Citie then': Soldiery and City in the Drama of Thomas Middleton - Samuel Rogers / Reviews 'Sometimes a figure, sometimes a cipher': Dramatic Assertions of Martial Identity, 1580-1642 - Benjamin Armintor 'Sometimes a figure, sometimes a cipher': Dramatic Assertions of Martial Identity, 1580-1642 - Vimala Pasupathi Afterword: The Way Ahead Bibliography