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Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400-1700
- Title
- Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400-1700 / Patrick Brugh.
- Author
- Brugh, Patrick
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xv, 255 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Changing perspectives on early modern Europe, 1542-3905
- Uniform Title
- Changing perspectives on early modern Europe.
- Subjects
- Military art and science
- War in literature
- Weapons in literature
- German literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Military art and science in literature
- Masculinity in literature
- German literature > Middle High German
- German literature > Early modern
- History
- Germany
- Firearms in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Gunpowder > History
- German literature > Middle High German, 1050-1500 > History and criticism
- Military art and science > Germany > History
- 1050-1700
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) 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).
- Call Number
- JFE 20-69
- ISBN
- 9781580469685
- 158046968X
- 9781787446083 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019026433
- 40029483640
- OCLC
- 1091587767
- Author
- Brugh, Patrick, author.
- Title
- Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400-1700 / Patrick Brugh.
- Publisher
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Changing perspectives on early modern Europe, 1542-3905Changing perspectives on early modern Europe.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1050-1700
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029483640
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-69