Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400-1700, Patrick Brugh
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Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400-1700, Patrick Brugh
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400-1700
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
1124616733
Responsibility statement
Patrick Brugh
Series statement
Changing perspectives on early modern EuropeCambridge Histories online
Summary
How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back together.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of 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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Subject
- Gunpowder + History
- German literature -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- History and criticism
- Weapons in literature
- Military art and science -- Germany -- History
- Firearms in literature
- War in literature
- German literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Masculinity in literature
- Military art and science in literature
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- Subject9
- Gunpowder + History
- German literature -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- History and criticism
- Weapons in literature
- Military art and science -- Germany -- History
- Firearms in literature
- War in literature
- German literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Masculinity in literature
- Military art and science in literature
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