ABSTRACT
As one might expect, the sixteenth-century military camp is described by all the military treatise writers of the 1590s as a place where exclusively male identities are defined, and is visually presented as such in the numerous diagrams that illustrate the manifold possibilities for camp layout. Fourquevaux for example surrounds the centralized figure of the commanderin-chief ('the colonelle', his position at the hub of camp life fixed by symbol and script) by protective bands of officers (the guidons, in charge of archers). He is also flanked by horsemen carrying firearms (s), footmen carrying pikes (tf^) and there is enough space measured out in between these lodgings to exercise the men and range them for battle.158 It has been shown how Digges in the extensively detailed annotations accompanying his diagram of the camp (fig.III.l) designates hierarchically ordered circles of tents from its outer to its inner reaches.159 And Garrard marks out a special space for cattle - but not for women auxiliaries (fig.III.2). All three writers blazon the importance of the figure in command, the officers, the men and provisions for them all. Notably lacking (in these and indeed in all sixteenth-century diagrammatic representations of the military camp) is graphic and inscribed space for the women who tagged on to do the providing. This was quite simply because the presence of women in an early modern army was a punishable offence.
