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Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700
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Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700 [electronic resource] / Patrick Brugh.
ISBN
9781787446083
9781580469685
Published
Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource.
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2020 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2020 History.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 18, 2020
Series
Changing perspectives on early modern Europe,
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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).
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