Conquistati e conquistatori. L’espansione spagnola nella penisola italiana e in America centrale nella prima età moderna
Conquered and conquerors. Spanish expansion into the Italian peninsula and Mexico in the early Modern Age
Abstract
This essay is focused on the relationship between managing enduring military competition and developing of self-consciousness and specific social codes in the newly formed professional combat units, such as Spanish tercios. The conquest of the New World and the settle of the Augsburg supremacy on Italy provide chronological and temporal limits to the debate, becoming an ideal laboratory to test the concept of war as promoter of linkages among social groups involved in warfare effort.
Il contributo fornisce alcuni spunti di riflessione sul rapporto tra la gestione di conflitti militari permanenti e lo sviluppo di forme di autocoscienza e di codici valoriali peculiari nei nascenti corpi di soldati professionisti, nella prima età moderna. La conquista asburgica del Nuovo mondo e dell’egemonia nella penisola italiana fornisce un limite cronologico e geografico alla riflessione, divenendo il campo di studi ideale per mettere alla prova il concetto di guerra come motore di relazioni tra i gruppi sociali coinvolti, siano essi parte dei ‘conquistatori’ o dei ‘conquistati’.
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