Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400-1700 /

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How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back together.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brugh, Patrick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
Series:Changing perspectives on early modern Europe.
Subjects:
1050-1700
German literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
German literature > Middle High German, 1050-1500 > History and criticism.
Military art and science in literature.
Firearms in literature.
Weapons in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
War in literature.
Gunpowder > History.
Military art and science > Germany > History.
Littérature allemande > 1050-1500 (Moyen haut allemand) > Histoire et critique.
Art et science militaires dans la littérature.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
Guerre dans la littérature.
Art et science militaires > Allemagne > Histoire.
Firearms in literature
German literature > Early modern
German literature > Middle High German
Gunpowder
Masculinity in literature
Military art and science
Military art and science in literature
War in literature
Weapons in literature
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 LützenNotes; Bibliography; Index

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