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Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400-1700 / Patrick Brugh.
LIBRA PT246 .B89 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brugh, Patrick, author.
- Series:
- Changing perspectives on early modern Europe
- Changing perspectives on early modern Europe, 1542-3905
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- 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.
- Gunpowder.
- History.
- Military art and science--Germany--History.
- Military art and science.
- German literature--Early modern.
- German literature--Middle High German.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 255 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Guns have been linked with masculinity in the European imagination since their earliest days. Focused on early modern German texts, including military manuals, poems, novels, and broadsheets, this book traces the cultural history of gunpowder in German-speaking lands from the Hussite Wars to the Thirty Years War. As the destructive capacity and military tactical value of gunpowder became more evident to European peoples over time, writers--especially German ones--expressed increasing anxiety about their disruptive potential for ideals of warrior masculinity, martial ethics, and the aesthetic foundations of war stories"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A tale of two suits of armor
- Of Hussites and haystacks, of questions and cannons
- Textbook war : the genealogy of Kriegsbücher
- Gunpowder dilemmas and loaded peace in Fronsperger's Kriegsbuch
- Depicting gunpowder in German military broadsheets (1630-32)
- Gustav Adolf's gunpowder demise
- The aesthetics of gunpowder in seventeenth-century German war novels
- Cavalier endings in Happel's Der insulanische Mandorell (1682).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781580469685
- 158046968X
- OCLC:
- 1091587767
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