Revised papers from a conference held at the University of Warwick in March 1986, sponsored by the university's Graduate School of Renaissance Studies and the Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham.

The essays in this collection bring together specialists across a range of disciplines to consider how painting, music and theater, and creative and autobiographical writing, seek to reconcile heroic conceptions of war with moral objections and actual experience. Preoccupation with this theme emerges as a common element in the work of many of the greatest figures of the late Renaissance in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and England.
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Poetry of War in the Italian Rennaissance

War and literature in 16th Century Spain

War in english poetry

Spencer and War