{"product_id":"john-hawkwood-william-caferro-9780801883231","title":"John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner, 2008 Otto Gründler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy. Born in England, Hawkwood began his career in France during the Hundred Years' War and crossed into Italy with the famed White Company in 1361. From that time until his death in 1394, Hawkwood fought throughout the peninsula as a captain of armies in times of war and as a commander of marauding bands during times of peace. He achieved international fame, and city-states constantly tried to outbid each other for his services, for which he received money, land, and, in the case of Florence, citizenship--a most unusual honor for an Englishman. When Hawkwood died, the Florentines buried him with great ceremony in their cathedral, an honor denied their greatest poet, Dante. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Caferro's ambitious account of Hawkwood is both a biography and a study of warfare and statecraft. Caferro has mined more than twenty archives in Britain and Italy, creating an authoritative portrait of Hawkwood as an extraordinary military leader, if not always an admirable human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Caferro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801883237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801883231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.56h x 6.44w x 1.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2006 pg. 53","brand":"William Caferro","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48748342870271,"sku":"9780801883231","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38ebaed5-435e-4a0a-a163-6e2f524506a8.jpg?v=1782628727","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/john-hawkwood-william-caferro-9780801883231","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}