"Doctors of the Military Discipline": Technical Expertise and the Paradigm of the Spanish Soldier in the Early Modern Period
Spain had one of the most successful armies of the early modern era; nevertheless, the "Military Revolution" thesis proposed by Michael Roberts and others depicts this army as a backward institution attached to antiquated techniques and ideas, and its commanding officers as inflexible and...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1996
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1996, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-85 |
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| Summary: | Spain had one of the most successful armies of the early modern era; nevertheless, the "Military Revolution" thesis proposed by Michael Roberts and others depicts this army as a backward institution attached to antiquated techniques and ideas, and its commanding officers as inflexible and unrealistic Don Quixotes. A careful reading of the major works of military science produced by Spanish officers in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries reveals that far from being "foils to progress," these soldiers formulated standards based on experience, merit, and technical knowledge and these standards had a significant impact in the professional debates of their day and in the incipient scientific revolution in the Iberian world. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2544269 |