Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- 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 (1630–32)
- 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
A Note on Translation and Spelling
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- 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 (1630–32)
- 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
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- Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400–1700 , pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019