The world of the siege : representations of early modern positional warfare / edited by Anke Fischer-Kattner, Jamel Ostwald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer-Kattner, Anke, editor.

Ostwald, Jamel, editor.

Series:

History of warfare ; v. 126.

History of warfare ; 126

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Siege warfare--History.

Siege warfare.

History.

Military history, Modern.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 316 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Representations of early modern positional warfare

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

"The World of the Siege examines relations between the conduct and representations of early modern sieges. The volume offers case studies from various regions in Europe (England, France, the Low Countries, Germany, the Balkans) and throughout the world (the Chinese, Ottoman and Mughal Empires), from the 15th century into the 18th. The international contributors analyse how siege narratives were created and disseminated, and how early modern actors as well as later historians made sense of these violent events in both textual and visual artefacts. The volume's chronological and geographical breadth provides insight into similarities and differences of siege warfare and military culture across several cultures, countries and centuries, as well as its impact on both combatants and observers."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. Participants and audiences

The world of the siege in new perspective: the populace during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) / Sigrun Haude

Colchester's plight in European perspective: printed representations of seventeenth-century siege warfare / Anke Fischer-Kattner

More honored in the breach? Representations of honor in Louisquatorzian sieges / Jamel Ostwald

Part 2. Imperial boundaries

Straddling empires: revolt and religion in early modern Dalmatia / Eric Dursteler

The 1689 Siege of Bombay in global historical perspective / Philip J. Stern

Narratives of Akbar's sieges and the construction of Mughal universal sovereignty / Pratyay Nath

Siege warfare in verse and prose: the Ottoman conquest of Kamianets-Podilsky (Kamanice), 1672 / Kahraman Sakul

Part 3. Definitions

Siegecraft in Ming and Qing China / Tonio Andrade

"The enterprises and surprises that they would like to perform": fear, urban identities, and siege culture during the French wars of religion / Brian Sandberg

Summary: under siege? Defining siege warfare in world history / Peter H. Wilson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: World of the siege

ISBN:

9789004395688

9004395687

OCLC:

1081433155