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The Thirty Yearsâ War (1618-1648) lies at the intersection of early modern and modern times. Frequently portrayed as the concluding chapter of the Reformation, it also points to the future by precipitating fundamental changes in the military, legal, political, religious, economic, and cultural arenas that came to mark a new, the modern era.
Prompted by the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the contributors reconsider the event itself and contextualize it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war.
Prompted by the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the war, the contributors reconsider the event itself and contextualize it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war.
Gerhild Scholz Williams, Ph.D. (1974), Washington University in St. Louis, is Barbara Thomas and David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanities as well as Vice Provost. She has published books and essays in medieval and early modern French and German literature, including Mediating Culture in the 17th Century German Novel (2014).
Sigrun Haude, Ph.D. (1993), University of Cincinnati, is Associate Professor of History at that university. She has published on Anabaptism, Gender, and the Thirty Yearsâ War. Her monograph on The Thirty Yearsâ War: Experience and Management of a Disaster is forthcoming.
Christian Schneider, Ph.D. (2007), Dr. habil. (2018), is Associate Professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published books and articles on medieval German literature and culture, including Hovezuht (2008).
Sigrun Haude, Ph.D. (1993), University of Cincinnati, is Associate Professor of History at that university. She has published on Anabaptism, Gender, and the Thirty Yearsâ War. Her monograph on The Thirty Yearsâ War: Experience and Management of a Disaster is forthcoming.
Christian Schneider, Ph.D. (2007), Dr. habil. (2018), is Associate Professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published books and articles on medieval German literature and culture, including Hovezuht (2008).
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction: Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands
âSigrun Haude
1 Bravado, Martial Magic, and Masculine Performance in Early Modern Germany
âB. Ann Tlusty
2 Discussion of the Just War in the Lutheran Funeral Sermons of the Seventeenth Century
âCornelia Niekus Moore
3 A Paper Victory Column (1664/1675): Female Authorship, Devotional Memory, and Religious Community
âLynne Tatlock
4 Event and Emplotment: âNarrativizingâ the Battle of Lützen
âNicolas Detering
5 Seeking Peace, Finding War: Supplication and Negotiation in Electoral Brandenburg during the Thirty Yearsâ War
âEvan B. Johnson
6 Negotiating the Thirty Yearsâ War: Anna Sophia of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1598â1659) and Her Survival Strategies
âJill Bepler
7 Artful Negotiator: Peter Paul Rubensâ Intervention in the Cause of Catholic Bavaria
âSusan Maxwell
8 âMake Peace, Not Warâ: an Anti-Propaganda Triumph in Johannes Sambucusâ Arcus aliquot triumphales et monumenta
âTamar Cholcman
9 Stopping an Ottoman Spy in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul: David Ungnad, Markus Penckner, and Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in the Ottoman Capital
âTobias P. Graf
10 âThe Imminent Danger of the Turksâ: Ottoman Expansion, Hungarian Revolt, and Habsburg Fear of War (1670â1672)
âGeorg B. Michels
11 Conflict and Coexistence: the Case of Early Modern Upper Lusatia
âMartin Christ
12 Dynastic Dislocation in the Thirty Yearsâ War: Lutheran Königsberg as Refuge for the Calvinist Houses of Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach
âSara Smart
13 Spoils of Knowledge: Looted Books in Uppsala University Library during the Seventeenth Century
âEmma Hagström Molin
14 Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant Nuremberg
âAlexander J. Fisher
15 Picturing Peace: Johann Vogelâs Emblematical Meditations on Peace, Nürnberg 1649
âMara R. Wade
16 State (De-)Formation in Practice: Bohemian Fiscal-Financial Arrangements during the War of the Spanish Succession
âStephan Sander-Faes
17 Space, Peace, and Conflict in Post-Thirty Yearsâ War Villages
âMarc R. Forster
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction: Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands
âSigrun Haude
Part 1: Within the War
1 Bravado, Martial Magic, and Masculine Performance in Early Modern Germany
âB. Ann Tlusty
2 Discussion of the Just War in the Lutheran Funeral Sermons of the Seventeenth Century
âCornelia Niekus Moore
3 A Paper Victory Column (1664/1675): Female Authorship, Devotional Memory, and Religious Community
âLynne Tatlock
4 Event and Emplotment: âNarrativizingâ the Battle of Lützen
âNicolas Detering
5 Seeking Peace, Finding War: Supplication and Negotiation in Electoral Brandenburg during the Thirty Yearsâ War
âEvan B. Johnson
6 Negotiating the Thirty Yearsâ War: Anna Sophia of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1598â1659) and Her Survival Strategies
âJill Bepler
7 Artful Negotiator: Peter Paul Rubensâ Intervention in the Cause of Catholic Bavaria
âSusan Maxwell
Part 2: War and Periphery
8 âMake Peace, Not Warâ: an Anti-Propaganda Triumph in Johannes Sambucusâ Arcus aliquot triumphales et monumenta
âTamar Cholcman
9 Stopping an Ottoman Spy in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul: David Ungnad, Markus Penckner, and Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in the Ottoman Capital
âTobias P. Graf
10 âThe Imminent Danger of the Turksâ: Ottoman Expansion, Hungarian Revolt, and Habsburg Fear of War (1670â1672)
âGeorg B. Michels
11 Conflict and Coexistence: the Case of Early Modern Upper Lusatia
âMartin Christ
12 Dynastic Dislocation in the Thirty Yearsâ War: Lutheran Königsberg as Refuge for the Calvinist Houses of Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach
âSara Smart
13 Spoils of Knowledge: Looted Books in Uppsala University Library during the Seventeenth Century
âEmma Hagström Molin
Part 3: Westphalian Peace and Post-War
14 Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant Nuremberg
âAlexander J. Fisher
15 Picturing Peace: Johann Vogelâs Emblematical Meditations on Peace, Nürnberg 1649
âMara R. Wade
16 State (De-)Formation in Practice: Bohemian Fiscal-Financial Arrangements during the War of the Spanish Succession
âStephan Sander-Faes
17 Space, Peace, and Conflict in Post-Thirty Yearsâ War Villages
âMarc R. Forster
Index
All interested in the history and culture of early modern Europe, and anyone concerned with the Thirty Yearsâ War, its contexts and aftermaths.