Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700

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

List of 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 (1630-1632)
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 Lützen
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Patrick Brugh

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Brugh, Patrick (Customer) Brugh
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781580469685
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-968-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 586 g
• Series: Changing Perspectives on Early; Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous