Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400–1700 BBrruugghh..iinndddd ii 88//44//22001199 44::3388::5511 PPMM Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe James B. Collins, Professor of History, Georgetown University Mack P. Holt, Professor of History, George Mason University Enlightened Feudalism: Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy Jeremy Hayhoe The King’s Bench: Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670–1740 Zoë A. Schneider The Scourge of Demons: Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent Jeffrey R. Watt Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV’s France: Franche-Comté and Absolute Monarchy, 1674–1715 Darryl Dee Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State The Mahuet of Lorraine Charles T. Lipp Louis XIV’s Assault on Privilege: Nicolas Desmaretz and the Tax on Wealth Gary B. 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Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. First published 2019 University of Rochester Press 668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA www.urpress.com and Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK www.boydellandbrewer.com ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-968-5 ISSN: 1542-3905 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Brugh, Patrick, author. Title: Gunpowder, masculinity, and warfare in German texts, 1400–1700 / Patrick Brugh. Other titles: Changing perspectives on early modern Europe ; vol. 21. Description: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2019. | Series: Changing perspectives on early modern Europe, 1542-3905 ; vol. 21 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019026433 | ISBN 9781580469685 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781787446083 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: 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. Classification: LCC PT246 .B89 2019 | DDC 830.9/2860903—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019026433 This publication is printed on acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America. BBrruugghh..iinndddd iivv 99//33//22001199 99::5588::5577 PPMM To Ann, Henry, and Baer v BBrruugghh..iinndddd vv 88//44//22001199 44::3399::4466 PPMM BBrruugghh..iinndddd vvii 88//44//22001199 44::3399::4466 PPMM Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi A Note on Translation and Spelling xiii Abbreviations xv 1 A Tale of Two Suits of Armor 1 2 Of Hussites and Haystacks, of Questions and Cannons 25 3 Textbook War: The Genealogy of Kriegsbücher 50 4 Gunpowder Dilemmas and Loaded Peace in Fronsperger’s Kriegsbuch 70 5 Depicting Gunpowder in German Military Broadsheets (1630–32) 94 6 Gustav Adolf’s Gunpowder Demise 121 7 The Aesthetics of Gunpowder in Seventeenth-Century German War Novels 150 8 Cavalier Endings in Happel’s Der insulanische Mandorell (1682) 184 Appendix: Comparisons of Broadsheets from Battles of Breitenfeld, Rain am Lech, and Lützen 199 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 247 vii BBrruugghh..iinndddd vviiii 88//44//22001199 44::3399::4466 PPMM BBrruugghh..iinndddd vviiiiii 88//44//22001199 44::3399::4466 PPMM Illustrations Figures Figure 1.1. “Full Suit of Armor,” German, ca. 1510–25 2 Figure 1.2. “Three-quarter Armor,” German, ca. 1625 3 Figure 5.1. “Formation before the Battle: Einbl Xb 4° 221,” Breitenfeld, 1631 104 Figure 5.2. “Sketch of the Bloody Battle: Einbl Xb 4° 220,” Breitenfeld, 1631 105 Figure 5.3. “Truthful Depiction and Description of the Great and Violent Engagement,” Breitenfeld, 1631 109 Figure 5.4. “The Newly Set Dessert Table,” 1631 113 Figure 5.5. “The Old German Tooth-Cracker,” 1632 118 Figure 6.1. “Description of the Battle of Rain am Lech,” 1632 134 Figure 6.2. “Depiction of the Great and Bloody Battle of Lützen,” 1632 140 Tables Table A.1. Narrative broadsheet reports of Breitenfeld (September 17, 1631) 199 Table A.2. Narrative broadsheet reports of Rain am Lech (April 14–16, 1632) 201 Table A.3. Narrative broadsheet reports of Lützen (November 16, 1632) 202 ix BBrruugghh..iinndddd iixx 88//44//22001199 44::3399::4466 PPMM