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- Approach to battle description as literary texts
- New access to well-known texts
- Broad, cross-cultural and cross-epoch access
Part of the book series: Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History (UUKS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Battle descriptions are usually seen as the raw material of the military historian, who uses them to explain why generals won or lost a given battle. This volume does not aim to contribute to this discussion; it rather approaches battle descriptions as literary texts that interact with the expectations of a given audience. Therefore literary traditions in structure, vocabulary and topics of battle descriptions should be explored. The transgression of genre-borders – also literary and fictional texts are included – and a broad comparative approach, combining evidence from the third millennium BC up to the 20th century AD, makes cultural specifics and differences more easily perceivable.
Contents
With contributions by Marcos Such-Guttiérrez, Pavel Čech, Hilmar Klinkott, Wolfgang Oswald, Kai Ruffing, Oliver Stoll, Martin M. Bauer, Reinhold Bichler, Christian Mileta, Simon Lentzsch, Sven Günther, Dennis Pulina, JohannaLuggin, Sonjar Koroliov, Magdalena Gronau and Martin Gronau.
The Editors
Dr. Johanna Luggin is a post-doc researcher in the ERC-funded project “NOSCEMUS – Nova Scientia: Early Modern Science and Latin” in Innsbruck, Austria.
Dr. Sebastian Fink is a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence “Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions”.
Editors and Affiliations
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Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria
Johanna Luggin
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Ceo Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions, Universität Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Sebastian Fink
About the editors
Dr. Johanna Luggin is a post-doc researcher in the ERC-funded project "NOSCEMUS - Nova Scientia: Early Modern Science and Latin" in Innsbruck, Austria.
Dr. Sebastian Fink is a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence „Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions“.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts
Book Subtitle: A comparative approach
Editors: Johanna Luggin, Sebastian Fink
Series Title: Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27859-5
Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-27858-8Published: 15 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-27859-5Published: 14 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-3780
Series E-ISSN: 2524-3799
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 372
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour