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Horror and Harm: Rudolf von Deventer's Treatise on Gunpowder and Fireworks, c. 1585

By Maria Fabricius Hansen, Anne Haack Christensen, Jesper Svenningsen, Casper Thorhauge Briggs-Mønsted
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By Maria Fabricius Hansen, Anne Haack Christensen, Jesper Svenningsen, Casper Thorhauge Briggs-Mønsted
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Horror and Harm: Rudolf von Deventer’s Treatise on Gunpowder and Fireworks, c. 1585 offers a transcription and translation from German into modern English of a unique and spectacularly illustrated sixteenth-century manuscript on war and festival culture during the reign of the Danish King Frederik II (r. 1559–88). The manuscript, written in German by the King’s specialist in artillery Rudolf von Deventer, presents instructions to produce firearms for defence against the archenemies of the C...

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