War in Words
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War in Words

Transformations of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz

  1. 440 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

War in Words

Transformations of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz

About this book

Although the paradoxical reality of warfare may elude definition, since antiquity war has been a constitutive element of Western culture; seen from a historical perspective, it gives access to a broad array of tensions between various models of knowledge and different kinds of tradition. The essays in this volume approach the phenomenon of war from antiquity to Clausewitz from the perspective of a variety of disciplines. Particular attention is given to texts, images, and their interaction.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9783110245417
eBook ISBN
9783110245424
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction. Stuck in Panduria: Books and War
  4. War and Justice in Hesiod
  5. Krieg und (Un-)Gerechtigkeit. Augustin zu Ursache und Sinn von Kriegen
  6. Sine fide nulla pax – Überlegungen zu Vertrauen und Krieg in den politischen Theorien von Machiavelli, Gentili und Grotius
  7. Wiederbegegnung mit Clausewitz
  8. What is the Meaning of ›War‹ in an Age of Cultural Efflorescence? Another Look at the Role of War in Song Dynasty China (960–1279)
  9. Beschreibung einer Belagerung: wenn Worte den Krieg ›sehen‹ lassen
  10. Das römische Militärlager und die ›ideale Stadt‹ der Neuzeit. Polybios, Machiavelli, Dürer, Serlio, Stevin und die Suche nach der idealen städtischen Raumordnung
  11. Der Architekt als Krieger. Bernardo Puccini und Galileo Galilei
  12. Penthesileas Kuss: Liebe und Krieg in der Literatur der Antike
  13. Imperial Views on the Battle of Carrhae
  14. Erzähltes Wissen vom Kriege. Narrativierung und komische Destruktion antiker Kriegslehren in der Literatur des Spätmittelalters (Heinrich Wittenwiler: Der Ring)
  15. Das Schreiben über den Krieg: Berichte über vergangenes und gegenwärtiges Kriegsgeschehen in der humanistischen Historiographie
  16. An Epic Poem of Peace: The Paradox of the Representation of War in the Italian Chivalric Poetry of the Renaissance
  17. ›whether the Macedonian, or the Roman, were the best Warriour‹: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Conflicts of Antiquity
  18. Skills and Virtues in Vitruvius’ book 10
  19. Selektion und Missverständnisse. Rezeption antiker Kriegstechnik im späten Mittelalter
  20. The War in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso: A Snapshot of the Passage from Medieval to Early Modern Technology
  21. Krieg und Zufall. Die Transformation der Kriegskunst bei Carl von Clausewitz
  22. Backmatter