Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts

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 doesnot aim to contribute to this discussion; it rather approaches battle descriptionsas literary texts that interact with the expectations of a given audience. Thereforeliterary traditions in structure, vocabulary and topics of battle descriptions shouldbe explored. The transgression of genre-borders - also literary and fictional texts areincluded - and a broad comparative approach, combining evidence from the thirdmillennium BC up to the 20th century AD, makes cultural specifics and differencesmore easily perceivable. Contents With contributions by Marcos Such-Guttiérrez, Pavel ?ech, 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 Lugginis a post-doc researcher in the ERC-funded project "NOSCEMUS -Nova Scientia: Early Modern Science and Latin" in Innsbruck, Austria. Dr. Sebastian Finkis a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre ofExcellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions".