
Front Lines
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MartInez asserts that these writing soldiers played a key role in the shaping of Renaissance literary culture, which for its part gave to them the language and forms with which to question received notions of the social logic of warfare, the ethics of violence, and the legitimacy of imperial aggression. Soldierly writing often voiced criticism of established hierarchies and exploitative working conditions, forging solidarities among the troops that often led to mutiny and massive desertion. It is the perspective of these soldiers that grounds Front Lines, a cultural history of Spain's imperial wars as told by the common men who fought them.
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"Miguel Martinez has identified something rare in early modern studies, a middle- to working-class republic of letters, rooted in a coherent social practice, and self-consciously set off against its putative betters. Front Lines is not just about war, soldiers, and empires, but about the social location of the Renaissance." (Ricardo Padron, University of Virginia) "Front Lines highlights a series of 'gunpowder epics' whose aesthetic and ideological priorities openly defied those of both learned epic and Carolingian romance. I know of no other work that evokes so fully the existence of an entire subculture of soldier-writers with their bracingly direct take on military life and often experimental way with received genres." (Michael Armstrong-Roche, Wesleyan University)More details
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- Cover
- Front Lines
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Muses' Comrades
- 1. The Soldiers' Republic of Letters
- 2. The Truth About War
- 3. Rebellion, Captivity, and Survival
- 4. New World War
- 5. Home from War
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments
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