Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700
How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back together.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Melton : University of Rochester Press,
2019
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe Ser.
v.Volume 21 |
| Schlagworte: | German literature Military art and science in literature Firearms in literature Weapons in literature Masculinity in literature War in literature Gunpowder Military art and science Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back together. Frontcover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation and Spelling -- Abbreviations -- 1 A Tale of Two Suits of Armor -- 2 Of Hussites and Haystacks, of Questions and Cannons -- 3 Textbook War: The Genealogy of Kriegsbücher -- 4 Gunpowder Dilemmas and Loaded Peace in Fronsperger's Kriegsbuch -- 5 Depicting Gunpowder in German Military Broadsheets (1630-32) -- 6 Gustav Adolf's Gunpowder Demise -- 7 The Aesthetics of Gunpowder in Seventeenth-Century German War Novels -- 8 Cavalier Endings in Happel's Der insulanische Mandorell (1682) -- Appendix: Comparisons of Broadsheets from Battles of Breitenfeld, Rain am Lech, and Lützen -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781787446083 1787446085 9781580469685 158046968X |