Chapter One. A Tale of Two Suits of Armor

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Note on Translation and Spelling xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Chapter One. A Tale of Two Suits of Armor 1
8. Chapter Two. Of Hussites and Haystacks, of Questions and Cannons 25
9. Chapter Three. Textbook War: The Genealogy of KRIEGSBÜCHER 50
10. Chapter Four. Gunpowder Dilemmas and Loaded Peace in Fronsperger’s KRIEGSBUCH 70
11. Chapter Five. Depicting Gunpowder in German Military Broadsheets (1630–32) 94
12. Chapter Six. Gustav Adolf’s Gunpowder Demise 121
13. Chapter Seven. The Aesthetics of Gunpowder in Seventeenth-Century German War Novels 150
14. Chapter Eight. Cavalier Endings in Happel’s DER INSULANISCHE MANDORELL (1682) 184
15. Appendix. Comparisons of Broadsheets from Battles of Breitenfeld, Rain am Lech, and Lützen 199
16. Notes 205
17. Bibliography 229
18. Index 247