Samuel Pufendorf and some stories of the Northern War, 1655 - 1660
| Titel: | Samuel Pufendorf and some stories of the Northern War, 1655 - 1660 / Wojciech Krawczuk |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Veröffentlicht: | Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, 2014 |
| Umfang: | 162 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Jagiellonian studies of history ; 5 |
| RVK-Notation: | |
| ISBN: | 9788323336990 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Preface
- p. 7
- Acknowledgements
- p. 15
- Chapter I
- A sense of time
- p. 17
- The fortress
- p. 18
- The siege
- p. 19
- The legend
- p. 22
- Pufendorf's tale
- p. 26
- Chapter II
- Judging the deeds
- p. 31
- Another Lion of the North?
- p. 33
- The commander
- p. 39
- The face of war
- p. 47
- Blaming the king
- p. 51
- The interferences
- p. 55
- Conclusion
- p. 57
- Chapter III
- Exotic encounters, forgotten tales
- p. 59
- The winged horsemen
- p. 61
- "Such an attack my eyes will never see again"
- p. 65
- Beware - the Tatars are coming!
- p. 70
- The Swedish horse
- p. 74
- Conclusion
- p. 78
- Chapter IV
- The chanceries at war
- p. 81
- The Office of the State
- p. 82
- The king's secret
- p. 85
- The seals and titles
- p. 90
- The postal issues
- p. 97
- The battle of Ven
- p. 99
- The war on memory
- p. 100
- Conclusions
- p. 104
- Chapter V
- War on the water
- p. 107
- Water as weapon
- p. 110
- The crossings of Lech and San Rivers
- p. 112
- Pirates and diplomats
- p. 115
- The African dimension
- p. 120
- Dominium Maris Baltici
- p. 122
- Conclusions
- p. 124
- Chapter VI
- The swamps and narrow roads - the landscape
- p. 125
- The images
- p. 130
- The illustrations and the reality
- p. 132
- Afterthoughts
- p. 139
- Bibliography
- p. 143
- Index
- p. 157
