Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- PROLOGUE -- 2. Why Chivalry? Military 'Professionalism' in the Twelfth Century: The Origins and Expressions of a Socio-military Ethos -- STUDIES IN CHIVALRY AND PROFESSIONALISM IN LATE-MEDIEVAL AND EARLY-MODERN EUROPE -- 3. Condottieri and Captains in Renaissance Italy -- 4. The Portuguese Nobility, and the Rise and Decline of Portuguese Military Power, 1400-1650 -- 5. Artisans, Architects and Aristocrats: Professionalism and Renaissance Military Engineering -- 6. Chivalry and Professionalism in the French Armies of the Renaissance -- 7. Chivalry, Military Professionalism and the Early Tudor Army in Renaissance Europe: a reassessment -- 8. Chivalry and Professionalism in Electoral Saxony in the Mid-Sixteenth Century -- 9. Soldados Platicos and Caballeros: The Social Dimensions of Ethics in the Early Modern Spanish Army -- 10. Army, Society and Military Professionalism in the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War -- 11. The Officer Corps and Army Command in the British Isles, 1620-1660 -- POSTSCRIPT: THE LAST GASP OF CHIVALRY? -- 12. Shoot Them All: Chivalry, Honour and the Confederate Army Officer Corps -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustration Section.