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Swordsmen: The Martial Ethos in the Three Kingdoms | 
 enlarge | Author: Roger B. Manning
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $135.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2743850
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0199261210
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.8094109032
EAN: 9780199261215
Publication Date: January 15, 2004
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Product Description
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 military revolution and the values of neostoicism, and revived the martial ethos of the English aristocracy and reinvigorated the martial traditions of the Irish and Scots.
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Intelligent overview of a 'martial culture' May 22, 2005
R. Pelzer (Kanoya city, Kagoshima, Japan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The present book is quite unique in it's approach, I believe, since it attempts to describe for the first time, as far as I'm aware of, a global phenomenon inherent to human nature in a local (i.e. British) nuanced context. And I, for one, feel Dr. Manning has succeeded wonderfully well in conveying the general culturally minded condition soldiers in the era under scrutiny must have been in. As the main vehicle towards an understanding of the problem at hand, Dr. Manning uses primary sources in abundance, which at times poses the reader with the task of having to discern the trees from the forrest. A task requiring a certain amount of concentration and endurance. Nevertheless, when arriving at the end of the book after reading tirelessly for several days to a week, one is left with the keen sensation of having acquired useful knowledge and an urge to read more. The sequel Dr. Manning announces in a footnote on the last page will be an eagerly awaited one for people, like myself, who are interested in 'martial culture'.
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