Honour and Fighting Social Advancement in the Early Modern Age

The article considers the importance of military service in social advancement, here understood as filling the role of “prince” in feudal law and thus participating in the government of an estate, in the transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Renaissance or Early Modern Age. In the context of a...

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Main Author: Gassmann Jürg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2015-05-01
Series:Acta Periodica Duellatorum
Subjects:
war
Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/apd.2015.3.issue-1/apd-2015-0005/apd-2015-0005.xml?format=INT