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Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700
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2019
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How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back together
Guns have been linked with masculinity since their earliest days on European battlefields, and surviving treatises on gunpowder from the early fifteenth century describe in detail the kinds of strong, sober, and God-fearing men who could be trusted to use this new weapon. 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 aboutthe disruptive potential that gunpowder weapons held for warrior masculinity, martial ethics, and the aesthetic traditions of war stories.
Focused on early modern German texts of all kinds, including military manuals,poems, theological treatises, novels, and broadsheets, Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700 traces the cultural and literary history of gunpowder in German-speaking lands from the Hussite Wars into the literary aftermath of the Thirty Years War. Taking a long view of this textual and material history, author Patrick Brugh reveals that early conversations about firearms resonate with those today, including debates on such topics as questions of masculine ethos and gun violence, the rights to self-defense and to bear arms, and the way new technologies change how we tell stories.
PATRICK BRUGH is an affiliate assistant professor of Genderand Sexuality Studies at Loyola University Maryland and an administrator at Johns Hopkins University.
Guns have been linked with masculinity since their earliest days on European battlefields, and surviving treatises on gunpowder from the early fifteenth century describe in detail the kinds of strong, sober, and God-fearing men who could be trusted to use this new weapon. 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 aboutthe disruptive potential that gunpowder weapons held for warrior masculinity, martial ethics, and the aesthetic traditions of war stories.
Focused on early modern German texts of all kinds, including military manuals,poems, theological treatises, novels, and broadsheets, Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700 traces the cultural and literary history of gunpowder in German-speaking lands from the Hussite Wars into the literary aftermath of the Thirty Years War. Taking a long view of this textual and material history, author Patrick Brugh reveals that early conversations about firearms resonate with those today, including debates on such topics as questions of masculine ethos and gun violence, the rights to self-defense and to bear arms, and the way new technologies change how we tell stories.
PATRICK BRUGH is an affiliate assistant professor of Genderand Sexuality Studies at Loyola University Maryland and an administrator at Johns Hopkins University.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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A Note on Translation and Spelling
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Chapter One. A Tale of Two Suits of Armor
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Chapter Two. Of Hussites and Haystacks, of Questions and Cannons
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Chapter Three. Textbook War: The Genealogy of KRIEGSBÜCHER
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Chapter Four. Gunpowder Dilemmas and Loaded Peace in Fronsperger’s KRIEGSBUCH
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Chapter Five. Depicting Gunpowder in German Military Broadsheets (1630–32)
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Chapter Six. Gustav Adolf’s Gunpowder Demise
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Chapter Seven. The Aesthetics of Gunpowder in Seventeenth-Century German War Novels
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Chapter Eight. Cavalier Endings in Happel’s DER INSULANISCHE MANDORELL (1682)
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Appendix. Comparisons of Broadsheets from Battles of Breitenfeld, Rain am Lech, and Lützen
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Gustav Adolf; battlefield; Bohemia; broadsheet; Flugblatter; bullet; cannonball; cavalry; Leonhard Fronsperger; Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen; infantry; Kriegsbuch; book of war; Johann Michael Moscherosch; nobility; Ottoman Empire; Ottomans; pistol; protestant; Thirty Years War; Johan Tserklaes von Tilly; Heinrich Wittenwiler
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
