War in Words: Transformations of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz
✍ Scribed by Marco Formisano (editor); Hartmut Böhme (editor)
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- German
- Leaves
- 441
- Series
- Transformationen der Antike; 19
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
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.
✦ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction. Stuck in Panduria: Books and War
War and Justice in Hesiod
Krieg und (Un-)Gerechtigkeit. Augustin zu Ursache und Sinn von Kriegen
Sine fide nulla pax – Überlegungen zu Vertrauen und Krieg in den politischen Theorien von Machiavelli, Gentili und Grotius
Wiederbegegnung mit Clausewitz
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)
Beschreibung einer Belagerung: wenn Worte den Krieg ›sehen‹ lassen
Das römische Militärlager und die ›ideale Stadt‹ der Neuzeit. Polybios, Machiavelli, Dürer, Serlio, Stevin und die Suche nach der idealen städtischen Raumordnung
Der Architekt als Krieger. Bernardo Puccini und Galileo Galilei
Penthesileas Kuss: Liebe und Krieg in der Literatur der Antike
Imperial Views on the Battle of Carrhae
Erzähltes Wissen vom Kriege. Narrativierung und komische Destruktion antiker Kriegslehren in der Literatur des Spätmittelalters (Heinrich Wittenwiler: Der Ring)
Das Schreiben über den Krieg: Berichte über vergangenes und gegenwärtiges Kriegsgeschehen in der humanistischen Historiographie
An Epic Poem of Peace: The Paradox of the Representation of War in the Italian Chivalric Poetry of the Renaissance
›whether the Macedonian, or the Roman, were the best Warriour‹: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Conflicts of Antiquity
Skills and Virtues in Vitruvius’ book 10
Selektion und Missverständnisse. Rezeption antiker Kriegstechnik im späten Mittelalter
The War in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso: A Snapshot of the Passage from Medieval to Early Modern Technology
Krieg und Zufall. Die Transformation der Kriegskunst bei Carl von Clausewitz
Backmatter
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