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# Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe

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## Customer Reviews

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    Well written and passionate
  

*by G***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2013*

Lynn makes the point that there are many questions to be answered about the role of women in the armies of early modern Europe.  Still getting us to think about the possible answers to these questions is an achievement, and in the places where he is able to provide plausible answers, he has made quite a contribution to women's and military history.  An enjoyable read.

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    Nothing particularly groundbreaking in this volume
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2015*

I've read my share of academic writing, and this book suffers from the worst excesses of those who write for an audience of mainly other academics:  taking forever to get to the point, excessive footnoting of sources, and not really having much of a point to make.Fifty to sixty pages into the book, the author was still saying things like "Several of the topics to be discussed in this volume..." and "this volume aims at exploring...." meaning that I was already one quarter of the way through the book, but the author hadn't even started his discussion yet.The book is littered with footnotes. It's a rare page that doesn't have at least one, and it's more common for 30 - 50 percent of the page space to be taken up with footnotes.  While this proves to other academics that the author did their homework, as a general reader it's highly distracting to have a footnote at the end of every sentence.  The publisher or editor should have encouraged the author to either reference his footnoted quotes in the body of his text or save all of his references for end notes, where they don't disrupt the flow for the reader.  And oddly enough, despite the plethora of footnotes, there was not a bibliography or suggested reading section included in the book.  Which meant that I had to go back through and hunt for sources that I thought might be relevant to my future research.I think I was most disappointed because the cover of the book led me to think that this might be a good resource for my research into the lives of 16th century camp followers of the Landsknecht.  But the author jumps around through three centuries (16th, 17th, and 18th) with the majority of his sources in the latter two centuries.  If you're interested in the 16th century, you're better off buying Peasants, Warriors, and Wives, as it seems the majority of his 16th century source material came from that book.  The author also bounces all over Europe, attempting to draw comparisons between how armies were composed in England, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Austria, and Prussia.  And he devotes 50 pages of the book to the topic of women who disguised themselves as men to join the army, which has nothing at all to do with his theories on the importance of women in the baggage trains (as women soldiers were not part of the baggage trains).The "groundbreaking" discoveries in this book boil down to the following points, which seem fairly obvious to me:- Women in the baggage trains were prostitutes (who took multiple sexual partners), whores (unmarried women with a single sexual partner), and wives.- Women's roles in the baggage trains were mainly as cooks, laundresses, seamstresses, and nurses.  Roles that were "unmanly" but necessary to the upkeep of the army.- Women's lives in the baggage trains were hard, they were exposed to the same dangers and diseases as the men, with the added possibility of being raped.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Groundbreaking work, essential reading
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2011*

Essential reading for any student of women's military roles in history. This groundbreaking book convincingly shows that early modern armies could not operate without women. Some actually fought, but most filled essential roles in supply and support. Exemplary in its critical use of sources, this book is outstanding for classroom use and general reading, as well as for researchers. Anyone researching or teaching European history should start here.

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