Bibliographical Essay

For an overview of military developments in this period the classic study on the period, with the emphasis on the narrative of battle, is C. Oman, A History of the the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century (London: AMS,1937), but this should be should be juxtaposed with A.

Studies of artillery, firearms and fortification include C. Duffy, Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World (London: Routledge, 1979); S. Pepper and A. Adams, Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth Century Siena (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986); Nicolas Faucherre, Places fortes: bastion du pouvoir (Paris: Rempart, 2000); N. Faucherre, Pieter Martens and Hugues Paucot (eds.), La genese du systeme bastionne en Europe, 1700-1760 (Navarrenx: Universite d'Aix-Marseille, 2014); David Buisseret, Ingenieurs et fortifications avant Vauban (Paris: Editions CTHS, 2002). On artillery and weaponry: J.

Studies on the ideology of war in the period include Y. N. Harari, Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1470-1600 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004); J. T. Johnson, Ideology, Reason and the Limitation of War: Religious and Secular Concepts, 1200-1740 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975); J. R. Mulryne and M. Shewring (eds.), War, Literature and the Arts in Sixteenth Century Europe (London: Macmillan, 1989); David Potter, ‘Chivalry and Professionalism in the French Armies of the Renaissance', in D. J. B. Trim (ed.), The Chivalric Ethos and Military Professionalism (Leiden: Brill, 2002), pp. 149-82; also the works ofJ. R. Hale listed above.

Studies of particular military systems that have been drawn on are: J. D. Tracy, Charles V Impresario of War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010); G. Parker, The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972); M. E. Mallett and J. R. Hale, The Military Organisation of a Renaissance State: Venice c.1400 to 1617 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984); F. Redlich, The German Military Enterpriser, 2 vols. (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1964-5); Maurizio Arfaioli, The Black Bands of Giovanni: Infantry and Diplomacy during the Italian Wars (1526-28) (Pisa: Pisa University Press, 2005). On France in particular, there are David Potter's Renaissance France at War: Armies, Culture and Society, c.1480-1560 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2008), his ‘Les Allemands et les armees franpaises au XVIe siecle', Francia 20.2 (1993), 1-20 and 21.2 (1994), 1-61, and his ‘The International Mercenary Market in the 16th Century: Anglo-French Competition in Germany, 1543-50', EHR in (1996), 24-58; also James Wood, The King's Army: Warfare, Soldiers and Society during the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-1576 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

On specific campaigns: D. Abulafia (ed.), The French Descent into Renaissance Italy, 1494-95 (Aldershot: Variorum, 1995), a collection of essays on related subjects; Didier Le Fur, Marignan 1515 (Paris: Tempus, 2015); Jean-Marie le Gall, L'honneur perdu de Franpois Ier, Pavie, 1525 (Paris: Payot, 2015); J. Giono, The Battle of Pavia (London: Peter Owen, 1965); L. Vissiere, A. Marchandisse and J. Dumont (eds.), 1513: L'annee terrible. Le siege de Dijon (Dijon: Editions Faton, 2013). On the comparison of battle accounts, P. Courteault, Blaise de Monluc historien: etude critique (Paris: Picard, 1907); and on the new battle history, Arianne Boltanski, La bataille: du fait d'armes au combat ideologique xie-xixe siecle (Rennes: PUR, 2015).

For the effects of war discussed in the final section: David Potter, War and Government in the French Provinces: Picardy 1470-1560 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), and his ‘“Rigueur de justice”: Crime, Murder and the Law in Picardy, Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries', French History 11.3 (1997), 265-309; Isabelle, Paressys, Aux marges du royaume: violence, justice et societe en Picardie sous Franpois Ier (Paris: Sorbonne, 1998); A. Corvisier and J. Jacquart (eds.), Les malheurs de la guerre I: De la guerre a l'ancienne a la guerre reglee (Paris: CHTS, 1996); Jean-Marc Dissaux (ed.), La guerre de 1537 en Artois and La guerre de 1542 en Artois (Artois: Association pour l'Histoire d'Artois, 2008, 2010).