Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms

by Roger B. Manning

Based upon a wide range of historical and literary sources, Swordsmen is a scholarly study of the military experiences of peers and gentlemen from the British Isles who volunteered to fight in the religious and dynastic wars of mainland Europe from the English intervention in the Dutch war of independence in 1585 to the death of the soldier-king William III in 1702. This apprenticeship in arms exposed these aristocrats to the chivalric revival, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199261210
• ISBN13: 9780199261215
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"