Experiencing the Thirty Years War : a brief history with documents /
Hans Medick, Göttinger; Benjamin Marschke, Humboldt State University.
- Boston ; New York : Bedford/St. Martins, [2013]
- xvii, 205 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
- Bedford series in history and culture .
- Bedford series in history and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1. Introduction: the Thirty Years War in experience and memory -- The origins of the Thirty Years War -- The course of the Thirty Years War -- The significance of the Thirty Years War -- pt. 2. The documents -- 1. Sense of crisis, sense of time: Tensions and preparations before the war -- The Protestant Union, 1608 -- The Catholic League, 1609 -- 1618: spectacular action and an omen of war and doom: The defenestration of Prague, 1618 / Wilhelm, Count von Slavata -- The comet of 1618 as a sign of the times and a bad omen, 1618 / Hans Heberle -- The siege and capture of Pilsen and the comet, 1618 -- 2. A religious war? -- Confessional politics before and during the war -- The religious peace of Augsburg, 1555 -- The edict of restitution, 1629 / Emperor Ferdinand II -- A childhood memory of the edict of restitution, 1629 / Johann Daniel Friese -- The edict of restitution as seen by a pragmatic Catholic hard-liner, ca. 1629 / Melchior Khlesl -- Religious violence as an expression of confessional identity -- Forced conversion and book burning, 1630-1631 / Bartholomaus Dietwar -- The seizure of the cathedral of Erfurt by the Protestants, 1632 / Hans Krafft -- Desacralization and its limits, 1632 / Maurus Friesenegger -- A Catholic martyr, 1631 / Liborius Wagner -- The Nurtingen "blood Bible," 1634 -- 3. Soldiers and civilians: confrontations and relations -- Friction and conflict -- The military occupation of Olmutz, 1642-1643 / Friedrich Flade -- Torture: the Swedish drink and water boarding, 1640 / Martin Botzinger -- Violence between peasants and soldiers, 1627 and 1637 / Volkmar Happe -- Peasant violence against soldiers and retribution for it, 1641 / Peter Hagendorf -- Quartering soldiers: a household under stress, 1633-1635 / Augustin Guntzer -- Gains and losses: quartering and occupation, 1636 / Christoph Brandis -- Rape and violence against women -- A case of rape, 1636 / Christoph Brandis -- Hounding civilians, 1640 / Christian Lehmann -- A soldier's various ways of dealing with women, 1634 and 1641 / Peter Hagendorf -- Fear of rape, management of relations, and sweet pacifications, 1632 / Maria Anna Junius -- The hardships of separation -- Letter to her "dearest brother," ca. 1625 / Margaret, the Mosbachers' maid -- Letter to the "most honorable" soldier Balthasar Wahs, 1625 / Anna Immick of Allendorf -- Letter to her "dear husband," ca. 1625 / Barbara Cautzner from Witzenhausen -- Letter to his "precious," 1625 / Michael Krafft -- 4. "War nourishes war": contributions, robbery, and plunder -- The burden of contributions on a city and on a household, 1637 / Johann Georg Maul -- Contribution arrangement for the city of Wernigerode, 1626 / Thomas Schmidt -- Paying contributions and expressing animosity toward Jews, 1636 and 1638 / Johann Georg Pforr -- A complaint from three Jewish heads of household, 1624 -- A soldier's fortunes: everyday life and surviving the war, 1627-1630 / Peter Hagendorf -- "Wolf devours wolf," 1639 / Volkmar Happe -- 5. Scourges of war: plague, starvation, and cannibalism -- The plague as the scourge of God, 1635 / Johann Daniel Minck -- War, plague, devastation, and danger: traveling in Germany during the Thirty Years War, 1636 / William Crowne -- Hungry peasants, starving soldiers, 1633-1634 / Maurus Friesenegger -- Report on cannibalism in Agawang / Michael Lebhardt -- Response to Lebhardt, 1635 / Kaspar Zeiller -- 6. Battle and massacre: experiences of mass violence and death -- Mass violence in small cities -- The siege and capture of Munden, 1626 / Asmus Teufel -- An attack on the city of Sondershausen, 1640 / Volkmar Happe -- The storming and destruction of Magdeburg -- The siege, assault, and destruction of Magdeburg, 1631 / Peter Hagendorf -- Magdeburg: the massacre viewed from within, 1631 / Johann Daniel Friese -- The catastrophe of Magdeburg: a local view, 1631 / Christian II of Anhalt-Bernburg -- The battle of Lutzen -- Request for reinforcements before the battle of Lutzen, 1632 / Albrecht von Wallenstein -- A battle like no one has ever seen or heard, 1632 / Albrecht von Wallenstein -- Retrospective account of a participant in the battle of Lutzen, 1632 / Zacharias von Quetz -- 7. Media, celebrity, and death: the cases of Gustav Adolph and Albrecht von Wallenstein -- Gustav Adolph's heroic death in battle -- "Victorious before death, in death, and after death," 1632 -- A handwritten newsletter from Nuremberg, 1632 -- The immortal Gustav Adolph, 1633 -- Protestant veneration of Gustav Adolph as seen from the Catholic side, 1633 / Mercury's Message -- Wallenstein's assassination -- Report of Wallenstein's death, 1634 / Regular Weekly News -- A parody of an epitaph for Wallenstein, 1634 / Regular Weekly News -- Wallenstein's death as treacherous murder, 1634 -- 8. Peace proclaimed and peace perceived: the peace of Prague and the peace of Westphalia -- The peace of Prague -- The peace of Prague, 1635 -- Skepticism about the recent peace of Prague, 1635 / Volkmar Happe -- Perceptions of the peace of Prague, 1635 / Johann Georg Pforr -- The peace of Westphalia -- The relativization of historical truths as a result of the war, 1647 / Johann Peter Lotichius -- The peace of Westphalia, 1648 -- The messenger bearing news of peace, 1648 -- Peace, but not the end of the consequences of war, 1648-1649 / Caspar Preis -- The uneasy peace and its aftermath, 1648-1650 / Hans Heberle -- The experience of war, anxiety regarding the future, and the will to reconstruct, 1647 -- Appendixes: A chronology of the era of the Thirty Years War (1608-1650) -- Questions for consideration.
"One of the most momentous and destructive wars in European history, the Thirty Years War has long been studied for its diplomatic, political, and military consequences. Yet the actual participants in this religiously motivated, seemingly endless conflict have largely been ignored. Hans Medick and Benjamin Marschke reveal the Thirty Years War from the perspective of those who lived it. Their introduction provides important insights into the roiling religious and political landscape from which the war emerged, as well as a thoughtful examination of the war's stages and enduring significance. An unprecedented collection of personal accounts, many of them translated for the first time into English, combine with visual sources to convey directly to students the experience of early modern warfare. Incisive document headnotes, maps and illustrations, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enrich students' understanding of this fateful war."--Publisher description.
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