Overview

The Thirty Years’ 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.

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Author:   Gerhild Scholz Williams ,  Sigrun Haude ,  Christian Schneider
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   48
Weight:   0.715kg
ISBN:  

9789004401914

ISBN 10:   9004401911
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   25 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction: Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in the Early Modern German Lands  Sigrun Haude Part 1: Within the War 1 Bravado, Martial Magic, and Masculine Performance in Early Modern Germany  B. Ann Tlusty 2 Discussion of the Just War in the Lutheran Funeral Sermons of the Seventeenth Century  Cornelia Niekus Moore 3 A Paper Victory Column (1664/1675): Female Authorship, Devotional Memory, and Religious Community  Lynne Tatlock 4 Event and Emplotment: “Narrativizing” the Battle of Lützen  Nicolas Detering 5 Seeking Peace, Finding War: Supplication and Negotiation in Electoral Brandenburg during the Thirty Years’ War  Evan B. Johnson 6 Negotiating the Thirty Years’ War: Anna Sophia of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1598–1659) and Her Survival Strategies  Jill Bepler 7 Artful Negotiator: Peter Paul Rubens’ Intervention in the Cause of Catholic Bavaria  Susan Maxwell Part 2: War and Periphery 8 “Make Peace, Not War”: an Anti-Propaganda Triumph in Johannes Sambucus’ Arcus aliquot triumphales et monumenta  Tamar Cholcman 9 Stopping an Ottoman Spy in Late Sixteenth-Century Istanbul: David Ungnad, Markus Penckner, and Austrian-Habsburg Intelligence in the Ottoman Capital  Tobias P. Graf 10 “The Imminent Danger of the Turks”: Ottoman Expansion, Hungarian Revolt, and Habsburg Fear of War (1670–1672)  Georg B. Michels 11 Conflict and Coexistence: the Case of Early Modern Upper Lusatia  Martin Christ 12 Dynastic Dislocation in the Thirty Years’ War: Lutheran Königsberg as Refuge for the Calvinist Houses of Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach  Sara Smart 13 Spoils of Knowledge: Looted Books in Uppsala University Library during the Seventeenth Century  Emma Hagström Molin Part 3: Westphalian Peace and Post-War 14 Musicalische Friedens-Freud: the Westphalian Peace and Music in Protestant Nuremberg  Alexander J. Fisher 15 Picturing Peace: Johann Vogel’s Emblematical Meditations on Peace, Nürnberg 1649  Mara R. Wade 16 State (De-)Formation in Practice: Bohemian Fiscal-Financial Arrangements during the War of the Spanish Succession  Stephan Sander-Faes 17 Space, Peace, and Conflict in Post-Thirty Years’ War Villages  Marc R. Forster Index

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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 Years’ War. Her monograph on The Thirty Years’ 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).

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