Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History /
Konijnendijk, Roel,
Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History / Roel Konijnendijk. - 1 online resource - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023 . - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023. .
Preliminary Material / Roel Konijnendijk -- Copyright page / Roel Konijnendijk -- Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History / Roel Konijnendijk.
The authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff, the intellectual nerve centre of the Prussian army. Officers rejected the ability of historians to understand warfare and imposed their pragmatic perspective on any attempt to study past wars. How did classicists and historians respond to this challenge? This book explores how the scope and method of the first handbooks on Greek warfare were shaped by their environment; it questions the ancient wisdom that practical expertise is the best guide to writing military history.
English
9789004540026 9789004514300
10.1163/9789004514300 DOI
Classical Studies.
Ancient History.
History.
Modern History.
History of Warfare.
PA6411.Z5
874/.01
Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History / Roel Konijnendijk. - 1 online resource - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023 . - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences. Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023. .
Preliminary Material / Roel Konijnendijk -- Copyright page / Roel Konijnendijk -- Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History / Roel Konijnendijk.
The authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff, the intellectual nerve centre of the Prussian army. Officers rejected the ability of historians to understand warfare and imposed their pragmatic perspective on any attempt to study past wars. How did classicists and historians respond to this challenge? This book explores how the scope and method of the first handbooks on Greek warfare were shaped by their environment; it questions the ancient wisdom that practical expertise is the best guide to writing military history.
English
9789004540026 9789004514300
10.1163/9789004514300 DOI
Classical Studies.
Ancient History.
History.
Modern History.
History of Warfare.
PA6411.Z5
874/.01