Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgments ix
6. List of Abbreviations x
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: Models of Military Identity
9. 1 ‘Warlike prowesse and manly courage’: Martial Conduct and Masculine Identity in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England 25
10. 2 ‘The Breviarie of Soldiers’: Julius Caesar’s Commentaries and the Fashioning of Early Modern Military Identity 56
11. 3 ‘Souldiers, or Clarkes, or both’: Ralph Knevet and the Fashioning of Military Identity through Print and Performance in Caroline Norwich 79
12. 4 Thomas, First Lord Fairfax and ‘The Highway to Heidelberg’ 100
13. Part II: Military Identities in Early Modern Ireland
14. 5 The Clergy and the Military in Early Modern Ireland 121
15. 6 ‘Trust, Desert, Power and skill to serve’: The Old English and Military Identities in Late Elizabethan Ireland 138
16. 7 Artifice in Ormonius: Why a Renaissance Latin Epic Falsified the Military History of a Tudor Irish General 158
17. 8 Irish Savage and English Butcher: Military Identities and Tyrone’s Rebellion, 1593-1603 177
18. 9 A print in my body of this day’s service’: Finding Meaning in Wounding During and After the Nine Years War 197
19. Part III: Staging Military Identities
20. 10 Othello and the Braggart Soldier in the Context of Elizabethan War Veterans 221
21. 11 ‘Lay by thine Arms and take the Citie then’: Soldiery and City in the Drama of Thomas Middleton 235
22. 12 ‘Sometimes a figure, sometimes a cipher’: Dramatic Assertions of Martial Identity, 1580-1642 256
23. Afterword: The Way Ahead 280
24. Bibliography 283
25. Index 309