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.
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