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SUMMARY:'Mobilising for Warfare in a Pre-Bureaucratic State: Elizabethan T
 roop Levies in the 1580s and 1590s' - Dr. Niel Younger (University of Durh
 am)
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:Over 100\,000 troops were sent to fight overseas during the ei
 ghteen years of warfare from 1585 to 1603\, the first extended conflict in
  which the vast majority of troops were raised by servants of the state ra
 ther than through the nobility. This presented a huge challenge to the sta
 te\, since the government chose to have these troops raised not by profess
 ionals\, but by the local elites of nobility and gentry - amateurs\, essen
 tially. At a time when changes in warfare were demanding ever more elabora
 tely (and expensively) clothed and equipped soldiers\, this paper will exa
 mine how the ramshackle structure of the Elizabethan state coped with this
  pressure. It will ask how far local elites co-operated with the letter an
 d spirit of the centre's demands\; how the centre sought to enforce these\
 ; and how effective a military response this approach provided for Elizabe
 th's generals.
LOCATION:Drawing Room\, Fisher Building\, St. John's College
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