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In Warriors for a Living, Idan Sherer examines the experience of the Spanish infantry during the formative period of the Italian Wars. Decades of clashes between Spain and France transformed Italy into a crucible of military tactics and technology and brought about the emergence of the Spanish infantry tercios as Europe's finest military force for more than a century. From their recruitment, through the complexities of everyday life in the army and culminating in the potential brutality of soldiering, the book offers a fresh and much needed exploration, analysis and, at times, reconsideration of what it meant to be a professional soldier in early modern Europe.

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''Sherers Zugang macht die individuelle Erfahrungder Professionalisierung von Soeldnerheeren historisierbar und ruckt sie damit auch in den Kontext der Phanomenologie gegenwartiger Tendenzen der Kriegfuhrung [...] Idan Sherer gelingt eine ansprechende Mischung aus UEberblicksdarstellungund reflektierter Thesendiskussion''. Heinrich Lang, in Zeitschrift fur Historische Forschung 46 (2019)2.

''Sherers Zugang macht die individuelle Erfahrungder Professionalisierung von Soeldnerheeren historisierbar und ruckt sie damit auch in den Kontext der Phanomenologie gegenwartiger Tendenzen der Kriegfuhrung [...] Idan Sherer gelingt eine ansprechende Mischung aus UEberblicksdarstellungund reflektierter Thesendiskussion'' - Heinrich Lang, in: Zeitschrift fur Historische Forschung 46 (2019)2

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Idan Sherer, Ph.D. (2015), is currently a Spinoza postdoctoral fellow in the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published articles in the Journal of Military History and The Sixteenth Century Journal.

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