
War in Words
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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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"I recommend this book to all classicists."Francesca Spiegel in BMCR 2011.12.45More details
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- 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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