Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400-1700. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Patrick Brugh.
• Authors: Brugh, Patrick
• 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).
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages.)
• Subjects: 830.9/2860903; German literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; German literature -- Middle High German, 1050-1500 -- History and criticism; Military art and science in literature; Firearms in literature; Weapons in literature; Masculinity in literature; War in literature; Gunpowder -- History; Military art and science -- Germany -- History; Firearms in literature; German literature -- Early modern; German literature -- Middle High German; Gunpowder; Masculinity in literature; Military art and science; Military art and science in literature; War in literature; Weapons in literature; Germany; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787446083; 1787446085; 9781787446502; 1787446506
• Related ISBNs: 9781580469685; 158046968X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.